15 INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT ARTISTS & ART EDUCATION

Art and inspiration are important parts of our society. As a marketer, I've walked the line of art and business. Sometimes tipping into one or the other entirely, but never quite forgetting either.

I originally curated these to help inspire art education and artists in my rural small town. It helped spark a conversation around the economics of the arts and support our local art education centers.

The quotes below are some of my favorites. I hope they will help inspire more patrons to take arts education and buying art locally serious. 

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"Creativity will be the currency of the 21st century."
- Gerald Gordon, Ph.D, President/CEO, Fairfax County (Virginia) Economic Development Authority

"Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator." 
- Former Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan

"Great art picks up where nature ends." 
- Marc Chagall

"Art helps us see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world." 
- Ernest Boyer, President, Carnegie Foundation

"Especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential." 
- Maria Shriver, Award-Winning Journalist and Author

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." 
- Albert Einstein

"For anyone to grow up complete, art is imperative." 
- Paul Harvey, Broadcaster/Commentator

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has ever known." 
- Oscar Wilde

"The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create." 
- Former President of the United State of America, Barack Obama

"Science and art equally are expressions of man's marvelous plasticity of mind." 
- Jacob Bronowski, scientist, formerly of the Salk Institute

"Politicians don't bring people together. Artists do." 
- Richard Daley, Former Mayor of Chicago

"The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself." 
- Woody Dumas, Former Mayor of Baton Rouge

"The Arts and Sciences have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind." 
- George Washington, First President of the United State of America

"Life without industry is guilt; industry without art is brutality." 
- John Ruskin

"Music, dance, painting, and theater are all keys that unlock profound human understanding and accomplishment." 
- William Bennett, Former US Secretary of Education

I hope that these quotes about art education and art's place in society were inspirational. There were thousands more to choose from and I could spend forever sharing my favorites. But I have to go make some art ;)