Damian Woetzel Quotes

If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate... It's a blend; it's not a point focus.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

It would, of course, be wrong to say that the arts have no social value. They have tremendous power and can often, indirectly, make our world a better place to live in.

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.

I grew up in a nonprofit theater company in the heartland of central California, so I am very aware of the importance that company had not only on my life but my community.

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

When you have a community that's strong in the arts, it brings all sorts of attention and different businesses into the community.

We're both very passionate about the arts. Mom, of course with her arts background. I have a theater background and work with children.

What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.

How can art make a difference in the world?

I rebelled against the idea of the artist being what I call the 'after-dinner mint' of society. I didn't want them to be just the entertainers, but rather part of the community - the bread, not only the dessert.

The power of the arts is not simply to provide pleasant esthetics but to help move us forward as a democracy.

Culture more than politics determines the success of the society, but politics can save the culture.

The audiences for some of many of our greatest cultural events—I’m thinking particularly of the Proms [traditional patriotic promenade concerts]—is still a long way from demonstrating that people from different backgrounds feel at ease in being part of this. I know this is not about making every audience completely representative, but if we claim great things for our sectors in terms of their power to bring people together, then we have a right to expect they will do that wherever they can.

Art is meant to disturb.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

… perhaps we are awakening to the realization that if individuals can no longer patronize the arts in the way they did in the old days, we may come to a time where the public will undertake to do this for its own pleasure and profit.

All across America, through the promotion of the arts, neighborhoods create job growth and development.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

I see the difficulty of kids in going to university, the difficulty of kids in schools getting arts education, so that the arts and drama and the creative arts are extracurricular. They aren't: they are at the centre, and they are the equipment we so desperately need in the world.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.

There are two big beasts in the arts: the BBC and Sky Arts - challenging, leading the way.

We've had real strong aboriginal male artists who've crossed over to the mainstream who have toured the U.K., who have been a massive influence on myself and many, many communities around Australia.

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

The arts help complete a person. I truly believe that.