Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself.

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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
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I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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Everything does go in a circle.
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The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
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When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
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I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
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Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.
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We have a fine arts visual classroom set up specifically for the arts as far as drawing and painting, ... We also have a fine arts music classroom set up for piano and music. Those were two things that, prior to this fall, we really didn't have in place at the college.
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We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.