Quotes About Diversity

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.

Art is not only about angst.

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.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

Art is for everybody.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.