Quotes About Engagement

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

I look for what needs to be done

A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

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

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.

Teaching is performance art.

If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's what the best art is supposed to do.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

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

Art should stimulate.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

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've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

There is no gap between art and politics.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.