Quotes About Engagement

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.

conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

I really do appreciate the awareness and the hype that the fans are creating. I, myself, have become totally addicted to checking out the fan art.

Art cannot be above the battle.

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

Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

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

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

A good piece of art raises questions.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends