Agnes Gund Quotes
My education in the arts began at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a Cleveland child, I visited the museum's halls and corridors, gallery spaces and shows, over and over. For me, the Cleveland Museum was a school of my very own - the place where my eyes opened, my tastes developed, my ideas about beauty and creativity grew.
Quotes to Explore
-
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
-
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
-
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
-
I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
-
We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
-
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
-
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
-
In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
-
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
-
I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
-
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
-
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
-
When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
-
If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
-
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
-
I went to a Catholic school, so of course we had to wear uniforms. My only form of expression was in shoes and the style of my hair.
-
The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
-
Education is the transformation of civilisation.
-
Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.
-
As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.
-
The fact I'm the third female Prime Minister, I never grew up believing my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.
-
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
-
My education in the arts began at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a Cleveland child, I visited the museum's halls and corridors, gallery spaces and shows, over and over. For me, the Cleveland Museum was a school of my very own - the place where my eyes opened, my tastes developed, my ideas about beauty and creativity grew.
