"That which we persist in doing becomes easier -- not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do it has increased." -Emerson
"Today the defining skills of the previous era - the "left brain" capablitilies that powered the Information Age - are necessary but no longer sufficient. And the capabilities we once thought frivolous -the "right brain" qualities of inventiveness, empathy, joyfulness, and meaning - increasingly will determine who flourishes and who flounders." - Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind
"Above all, it is matter of loving art, not understanding it." -Fernand Leger
"What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are." -Richard Serra
"We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness." -Anish Kapoor
"You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition." -Maya Lin
"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about." -Helen Frankenthaler
"We must include the arts in the education of all students if we want our children to be prepared for the challenges of life and work in our global society. The challenges of today, and most certainly of tomorrow, require the abilities, skills, habits, and knowledge that education in the arts is uniquely able to provide." -Kent Siedel, PhD, Commisioned by the Association for the Advancement of Arts Education
"Art is the Queen of all sciences, communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world." -Leonardo da Vinci
"So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering." -Ben Shahn
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." -Pablo Picasso
"Art is not dependent on the lastest technology but on the greatest active mind." -Laurence Gartel
"I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none." -Aristophanes
"Since the art classroom places a special emphasis on individual expression, requiring the acquistion of a diverse range of skills and dealing with many gender related images, it can either contribute to inequality or provide a potent site for promoting gender equity." -Martin Rosenburg and Frances Thurber, Gender Matters in Art Education
"At a recent shareholders’ meeting, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said, “What we've got at GM now is a general comprehension that you can't run this business by the left, intellectual, analytical side of the brain. You have to have a lot of right side, creative input. We are in the arts and entertainment business, and we're putting a huge emphasis on world-class design." -Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind
"If you peel that back, what you want is people who are intrinsically motivated. That is, they are doing what they love. And it tends to be right-brain activities that generate that kind of motivation." -Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind
"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven, I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since." -Leonardo da Vinci