The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
Interpretation
Art transcends the limitations of language, allowing for deeper understanding and expression beyond mere words.
Elliot W. Eisner's quote emphasizes that while language is a powerful tool for communication, it has inherent limitations that can restrict our thoughts and perceptions. Art, on the other hand, serves as a means to convey complex ideas and emotions that words alone cannot fully capture, thereby expanding our cognitive horizons and understanding of the world.
In practice
During a lecture on the role of art in society, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of artistic expression.
The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
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.
I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.
Design has to work. Art does not.
I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.
'Let the music play on' would be my legacy.
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.
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