Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes

I hope to contribute to a global warming of hearts and a climate change in human consciousness.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

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

'Aquarian Conspiracy' is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change. Such a notion is not at all alien to the American milieu.

As an actor, the best way I can hope to promote greater social understanding is through my work. If I can communicate with people and touch their hearts through 'Dangal,' perhaps, eventually, I can help change their minds.

I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.