The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

Art is literacy of the heart

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover.

Big brothers are the ones who are supposed to pull their punches. Little sisters—well, we should be able to hit as hard as we like, shouldn’t we?

I think that people see that Sandra Bullock has an ability to laugh at herself and you just don't find that too often.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.