Quotes About Belonging

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

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She was starving for friendship.