Effect of Art Access and Exposure on ...
... SCIENCE
“A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic table, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.”
- Albert Einstein, May 1953
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“The greatest scientists are artists as well”
- Albert Einstein, 1923
... SOCIETY
“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams-day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.”
- L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz (in his 1917 letter to readers of Book 11 of his 14 book Oz series).
... MEDICINE
“Much has been written about the capacity of the visual arts to allow physicians to pick up more physical findings. [ ], ‘many physical findings were first described by artists, and only later by their left brain critical counterparts.’ ”
– Dr. Salvatore Mangione, Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Physical Diagnosis and History of Medicine Courses, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
... BUSINESS
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
- Walt Disney
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“First-of-their-kind developments require unprecedented degrees of creativity – which has become a more important leadership quality than attributes like management discipline, rigor or operational acumen."
- Samuel Palmisano, former Chairman, President & CEO, IBM Corp