Animal Quote by Edward Albee

The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring…

— Jacques d'Amboise

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So…

— Audra McDonald

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us…

— Roy Lichtenstein

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability…

— Naomi Alderman

“Art is what separates us from the animals.”

— Iimani David

The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They…

— Agnes Gund

We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily…

— Paul Kurtz

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

— Richard Eyre

The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty…

— Gordon Gee

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings, statues, poems,…

— Leo Tolstoy

The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at…

— John D. Rockefeller III