Vicente Fox Quotes

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow.

The best songs/films/collections expose truths about life and make them universally accessible; they progress humanity.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

Music's the biggest way of connecting people.

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

I feel art has the power to bind us.

It's cool to be able to relate to people who aren't necessarily from the same way of life as me or don't even maybe know what I'm talking about in some of my songs. It's just cool that music has that ability to do that.

There was a place I visited in Lahore that felt to me like old Delhi, and I'm sure Pakistanis who come from Lahore to Delhi feel the same.

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.

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

It's time that we gave our children what we owe them, which is a richer understanding of the past and of the importance of all that Germany has done for England and that England has done for Germany.

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

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.

Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding.

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

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

Music, many times, around the world, serves to help us understand other people without having to talk.

I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.

When I heard that Capital One was fostering a conversation about natural connections that exist among all of us, bridged through our travels - I knew I had to get involved.

Art connects everyone.