“Creativity comes from finding the unexpected connections, from making use of skills, ideas, insights and analogies from disparate fields...It is my belief, after many years of study, that those who do develop interactive or correlative talents often do so because they have a predisposition – learned or innate or a combination of the two, I cannot tell – to view their intellectual world globally and holistically.” (53)

- Robert S. Root-Bernstein's “Music, Creativity and Scientific Thinking” Leonardo Vol. 34, No. 1 (2001): 63-68. Web. 21 Nov. 2015

“To the degree that questions are posed about the effects of the arts on student achievement, they may need to be reconceptualized and rewritten to ask what constitutes a well-educated student, a successful learning and teaching experience, successful schooling, or educational success.  In other words, what are the broad and nuanced learning and teaching opportunities that prepare students to think broadly while honing in on the foundational abilities of reading, writing and arithmetic and the thinking, social, and emotional dispositions that allow for learning?” (34)

- Vivian L. Gadsden's “The Arts and Education: Knowledge Generation, Pedagogy, and the Discourse of Learning” Review of Research in Education, Vol. 32, What Counts as Knowledge in Educational Settings: Disciplinary Knowledge, Assessment, and Curriculum (2008): 29-61. Web. 21 Nov. 2015