I don't think there should be a hierarchy of what is valid in the arts.
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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.
Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.