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I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They help us know better.

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.