It's hard to quantify how the arts and sponsoring the arts can uplift and improve.

Let me be specific: it's hard to cater to the bean-counters and cynics with numeric measurements that art doesn't equal wasted money.

Through the arts people are learning creativity and flexibility, a skill that allows them to better cope with an ever-changing world...

Art isn't about creating something brand spanking new, although that's definitely cool when it happens. It's about the expression and breaking the mold that we so often trap ourselves in. It's social repercussions and qualitative additives to life in general far outweigh the few dollars a month in tax money Americans should be spending.

I feel ya, man.
N8ey | Homepage | 10.02.06 - 8:18 pm | #