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The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

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.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.