To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
Art is literacy of the heart
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
Psychologically, when I sit down at noon, I'm it. I'm the only thing on. Nobody else does what I do. Nobody else has the opportunity. That's the psychological mindset. It's not an ego thing; it's just the way I've always approached it.