Art Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the…

— Elliot W. Eisner

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is…

— Peter Drucker

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that…

— Ken Danby

if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and…

— Esmeralda Santiago

The arts don't exist in isolation.

— David Byrne

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

— Tyler Cowen

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself,…

— Louise Bourgeois

Art degraded, Imagination denied.

— William Blake

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even…

— Amiri Baraka

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

— Philip Kitcher

The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

— Eugene Ionesco