Art Quote by Emma Walton Hamilton

“At a time when there is so much tension in the world - between cultures, and nations, and so forth - there is nothing that levels the playing field more than the arts.” quote by Emma Walton Hamilton — Download Open image

“At a time when there is so much tension in the world - between cultures, and nations, and so forth - there is nothing that levels the playing field more than the arts.”

Emma Walton Hamilton

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I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in…

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Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

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Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden…

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I was able to hide a lot behind 'Walton,' and found that to be quite useful.

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So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn…

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And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

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I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our continuing to…

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Netflix is so amazing because they take chances. They'll take a risk, be edgy, be quirky.

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The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.

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Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that storytelling is…

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We're both very passionate about the arts. Mom, of course with her arts background. I have a theater background and work with children.

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My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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