Quotes About Engagement

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

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.

Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

Art and politics have many things in common.

Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

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

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.

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.

The arts don't exist in isolation.