Ability Quote by Elliot W. Eisner

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to…

— Murasaki Shikibu

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

— Kató Lomb

The arts really matter in education. Sometimes the arts are the only way a student is unlocked. Sometimes it's the only way a student…

— Henry Winkler

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

— Quintilian

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

— David McCullough

“If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives,…

— Milton Glaser

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air…

— Joan Rivers

I believe that arts education is necessary for promoting creativity and nurturing student's talents, and I encourage all students to continue exploring their artistic…

— Al N. Green

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety…

— Elliot W. Eisner

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

— Ralph Ellison

I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is…

— Samuel Johnson