Art education champion and professor emeritus at Stanford Elliot Eisner discusses how art can inspire business and how we can continue to develop art throughout our lives. In contrast to our brains, he says, our minds are not fully given at birth: they are a form of cultural achievement. You develop a kind of mind deeply influenced by your experience and training opportunities, and as a result, artistry can be achieved by how we develop 'environment we live. Eisner argues that, as we learn in and through art, we become more intelligent quality and our minds are affected differently: our senses are purified so that our ability to perceive the world becomes more complex and subtle, our creativity advance so that we can imagine that we can not actually see, taste, touch or hear., and we perceive the world in a new way "Hide
by Karen Christensen Source: Rotman School of Management, 4 pages. Publication Date: 01 May 2010. Prod. #: ROT115-PDF-ENG