Scott Bakula Quotes

The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

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.

It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition.

My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.

I just love what art can do and what it means for us; that it can cross barriers. It can speak to us across space and time and culture.

Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.

I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so many other things than just funny.

I am a citizen of the planet and I want to do films that appeal to people, not communities.

I'm proud of the younger Roland. Very proud of some of the lyrics. They stand up today. I'm cool with it, though some of it is a bit painful.

There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.

I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.

We're coming to the peak, I think soon, before we have to come back to, like, humanity. Humanity needs to look, and it hasn't been looking for so long.

Meeting people from different countries makes you realise that everyone around the world has the same needs and aspirations.

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

The advantage of doing away with words is that you can reach out to any part of the world.

I don't know why I developed a social consciousness, but I really think I have a consciousness; I feel connected to everything and everybody in the world.

Maybe one day, I will go to Pakistan and meet these fans who like me and my work. At the end of the day, we are all the same, and meeting my fans there is something that I have on my mind.

We're so immersed in ourselves at home, but when you're travelling, it's important to be open.