DeRay Mckesson Quotes

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

I was in more of the artsy crowd in high school.

I think Baltimore is a wonderful artistic community with a lot of great musicians. It's kind of like a little secret for musicians.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

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

Bring the arts back, and treat it with respect.

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

You will find in the streets of New York every variety of architecture, just as you find in its libraries all the literatures of the world, and in its theatres all the music, and in its houses all the decorative arts.

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

New York, to me, is the arts capital of the world. I just feel so inspired when I'm there. I would love to live there at some point in my life and do a play.

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.

Minneapolis, in general, has been there with me since the beginning. They made me feel important before I really even had a foundation. I think a lot of it has to do with it's such an intense music city in its own right.

I love London - its where I'm born and bred - but New York just has such an energy when you're walking around, and if you act or you write and you act like I do, its just such a good town for you because people here like people who can do more than one thing.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.