John Dewey Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

  John Dewey

  Art, Expression, Individuality

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.226, Indiana University Press

• As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

  John Dewey

  Art, Civilization, Long

  John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

• The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them.

  John Dewey

  Art, Knowledge, Class

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.237, SIU Press

• If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

  John Dewey

  Art, Painting, Gathering Data

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience”, p.80, SIU Press

• Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

  John Dewey

  Art, Communication, Art Is

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.291, SIU Press

• A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.

  John Dewey

  Art, Lying, Spring

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.151, Courier Corporation

• All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power.

  John Dewey

  Running, Art, Communication

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position could not readily share in many of the most important of them. Not sharing in them, their meaning would not be communicated to him, would not become a part of his own mental disposition. There would be no seeing the trees because of the forest. Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor for attention; confusion would be the outcome.

  John Dewey

  Art, Children, Confusion

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

• The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

  John Dewey

  Art, Philosophy, Divorce

• The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.

  John Dewey

  Art, Judging, Perception

  1934 Art as Experience.

• To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the unfolding of the inner life and the ordered development of material conditions--that is art.

  John Dewey

  Art, Development, Facts

  John Dewey (1977). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.292, SIU Press

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