Art Quote by Elliot W. Eisner

“The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.”

Elliot W. Eisner

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