art is essential
I base my whole career on this premise. Here is a collection of reasons why.
art is essential
Art can be an emotional trigger for larger and deeper dialogues. It can blur the boundaries between things, the boundaries between us and the boundaries between the world and self. Still we rarely see art and economy as subjects deeply unified in the same study or mechanism.
Jenny Grettve • economicspaces
Not to sound like a raging humanist, but I believe we need more funding for the arts and humanities, not less. Taste, judgement, creativity, all of these attributes don't get refined by doing the same thing, reading the same thing, and listening to the same thing as everybody else all the time.
This is just a thought I had after I saw Kameron... See more
This is just a thought I had after I saw Kameron... See more
Paul Venuto • feed updates
Time spent thinking about art is time spent wondering what it really feels like to be you.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
Yet artists have never lost their power to create transcendent things. Every society’s art that we can still access vibrates intensely through the human experience. We are still creating things that can fundamentally alter people’s lives, shake the core of their understanding, rewrite their entire personhood.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
When we defund the arts, we aren’t cutting “extras.” We’re cutting out access to empathy, critical thinking, joy, identity, and freedom of expression. We are narrowing our children’s worldviews and telling future generations that beauty and voice don’t matter.
This erosion isn’t accidental—it’s often political. Silencing art is a time-tested tool of... See more
This erosion isn’t accidental—it’s often political. Silencing art is a time-tested tool of... See more
Art as A Necessity: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Human Survival
Without art, there is no architecture, no fashion, no culinary tradition, no meaningful communication. In fact, without art, we wouldn’t even know how to communicate that food, clothing, and shelter are important.
Art as A Necessity: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Human Survival
Art is the greatest operating system our species has ever invented, a means of exploring consciousness, seen and unseen worlds. It is an instrument, medium, matrix, or miracle that transforms old impressions into new thoughts; that makes a thousand insignificant details light up and draw you out. For many of us, it is another country, a new home.
Jerry Saltz • Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
Art is so much more than one thing. It’s aesthetics, beauty and creativity. But it’s also history, economics, anthropology, spirituality, sociology, math, science. Every artwork is a snapshot of its time, often shaped by trade, politics, scarcity, and belief.