Quotes About Community

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

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

Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

When art wins, everyone wins.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.