Quotes About Community

That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

"The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share."

The arts don't exist in isolation.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

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

My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.

I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.