Eisner Art Quotes & Sayings

The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres. Their home can be found wherever humans chose to have attentive and vita intercourse with life itself. — Elliot W. Eisner

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

The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field. — Will Eisner

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. — Will Eisner

The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job. — Elliot W. Eisner

Management is not a science, it is an art. — Michael Eisner

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. — Elliot W. Eisner

Art is literacy of the heart. — Elliot Eisner

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds. — Elliot W. Eisner

All art forms employ some means through which images become real. — Elliot W. Eisner

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core. — Elliot W. Eisner

If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure ... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure. — Elliot W. Eisner

The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds. — Elliot W. Eisner

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. — Elliot W. Eisner

The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties. — Elliot W. Eisner

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

The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important. — Elliot W. Eisner

The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. — Elliot W. Eisner