Quotes About Community

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

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

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

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'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.

Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.