Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

I had really great art classes. Really great art teachers. Arts played a very important role in having a place to express yourself uniquely.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

I believe in art.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.

I want to bring art into everything.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.

I don't enjoy art.

Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes a human being. This made me understand and cherish American art forms.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.