No amount of skillful
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. Edward Hopper
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. Edward Hopper
It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient. Frank Gehry
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. Francisco Goya
What is desperately needed… is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. Felix Rohatyn
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life. Derek Bok
There is a growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens David J. Skorton
This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out. David … Read more
I hadn’t had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn’t going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing … Read more
I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn’t lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It’s a set of propositions about how things should look. Dave Hickey
The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society. Dana Gioia