Quotes About Community

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

Remember, the early '60s in London was something - which must have been like Berlin in the '30s when the arts flourished. You didn't have the differences in class, and so on.

When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It is absolutely free. It is the community center.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

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

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.