Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

My sister sings, and in Mexico, we have these things called 'Casa de la Cultura,' which are specific places where they actually foster culture. They support people who want to do something in culture.

But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the curriculum. There's no art; there's no music. In some cases they've taken away the libraries. They don't do theater. And these are the things that speak to the human soul.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.