Art Quote by Renee Watson

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a…

— Gavin Newsom

The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

— Kerry Washington

I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for…

— Asia Kate Dillon

I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

— Meryl Streep

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

— Samuel Butler

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find…

— Idina Menzel

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of…

— Samuel Butler

I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby - that I couldn't do it as a career.

— Mena Massoud

The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them…

— Elliot W. Eisner