Munira Mirza Quotes

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

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Anytime you can be a part of something that hopefully tries to make a cultural contribution, I love the idea of that.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?

I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does.

The influence of culture and arts is much larger than the influence of economy sometimes.

As soon as I heard of Common Goal I knew this was a chance for football to improve our world and I wanted to be part of it.

If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

'The Cosby Show' changed America's opinion on so many different topics and opened so many people's eyes, and so you really learned immediately the power of what you were doing, that there was a power in portraying a role, and you were made aware of the effect that it could have on people, so it does raise the bar.