Quotes About Involvement

The fine arts thing at college was always too much for me to think about. What I was more involved in was being successful at arts school.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

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

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.

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

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.

Grief ate at these doctors, distracting them from both their families and their patients. Many reported withdrawing from emotional involvement with their patients and that their patients had noticed they weren't fully present.

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

You're not seeing anything, saying anything. The weird paradox is that you think you're at the center of things, and that makes your opinions more valuable, but you yourself are becoming less vibrant. I bet you haven't done anything offscreen in months.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

I know. I admit that. You're working with NSC now. And the FBI." "So?" "So how would you like to be part of a joint effort with NIC?" "I already have enough alphabet letters, thanks." "You

In short, if God-fearing citizens are not involved at the ballot box, God-fearing leaders will not be elected, God-honoring policies will not be enacted, and the respective city, state, or nation will not be blessed by God.

And if you aren't a dues paying member of a dozen NGOs, each fighting for a future you believe in, then take another look at the hypocrite in the mirror. That method is a lazy person's cheap route to bragging rights: "I'm at least doing something." Here's how.

I didn't want to get involved in an argument, so I lied, saying that I wasn't being crabby at all, I was just looking for a goddamn place to set the cake down in our disgusting pit of a refrigerator.

You can be at certain parties and not really be there.

My own plan for the coming fourteen months is to knock on doors and stuff envelopes. Maybe even to wear a button. To try to accrete with others into a demographically significant mass. To try extra hard to exercise patience, politeness, and imagination on those with whom I disagree. Also to floss more.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn." (Winston Churchill)

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

Sehen Sie, gerade in der Kunst brauchen wir wieder eine Jugend die zu allen Problemen akitv Stellung nimmt.

80% of life is showing up.