Good Things About Art

Inspires

Evokes

Is free

Relaxes

Communicates

Boosts memory

Improves flow

Can be a refuge

Helps us connect

Sharpens the wit

Teaches patience

Boosts confidence

Reduces depression

Can reduce distress

Has intrinsic worth

Promotes creativity

Distinguishes place

Improves spontaneity

Teaches perseverance

Reduces dropout rates

Consoles in misfortune

Helps us express grief

Improves concentration

Makes us more observant

Builds fine motor skills

Gives a sense of purpose

Improves quality of life

Promotes self-expression

Able to nourish our souls

Improves medical outcomes

Can help reduce depression

Improves our immune system

Reduces stress and anxiety

Stimulates the imagination

Decreases negative emotions

Helps hand-eye coordination

Helps us deal with emotions

Increases positive emotions

Can be an expression of love

Distracts thoughts of illness

Encourages neural connections

Helps fill occupational voids

Improves academic performance

Allows us to process our world

Provides bonding opportunities

Helps with language development

Improves emotional intelligence

Helps us form a positive identity

Even if unsuccessful is still art

Fosters regular school attendance

Improves individual craftsmanship

Shows human life to be worthwhile

Develops problem solving abilities

Provides a sense of accomplishment

Reveals the power of the intuitive

Is a source of beauty and expression

Can appeal to our longing for beauty

Consoles those who are broken by life

Improves world and cultural awareness

Satisfies our deep longing for beauty

Colours life as the sun colours flowers

Encourages reflection and introspection

Offers respite from worry about illness

Allows for exploration and healthy risk-taking

Expresses feelings, thoughts, and observations

Captures the reality hiding beneath the culture

Can reach students with different learning styles

Can be used to teach and understand other subjects

Has value in and of itself, apart from any utility

Indirectly communicates from one person to another

Brings consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy

Washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

Can communicate a portion of God’s beautiful creation

Converts every object into a little universe in itself

Is one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness

Crystallizes emotion into thought, and then fixes it in form

Trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind

Provides a way to experience ourselves in relation to the universe

Stimulates our thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas through the senses

Provides a range of forms, symbols and ideas with meanings that are malleable

Represents not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance

Can draw our attention to parts of God’s creation that we may never personally see, or notice if we do see it

Communicates profound spiritual, intellectual, and emotional truths about the world that God has made for his glory

Provides a means to express the imagination in non-grammatic ways that are not tied to the formality of spoken or written language