Art Quote by Gordon Gee

University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.

— Owen Jones

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science,…

— Peggy Phelan

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

— Anonymous

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world,…

— Richard Hofstadter

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

— Derek Bok

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything…

— Richard Hofstadter

It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use…

— Noam Chomsky

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be…

— Ernest L. Boyer

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a…

— Seth Low

“Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms that make…

— Deb Margolis