Creative Outreach Quotes

When you're an artist, you have a platform that can reach millions.

Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.

You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.

Our Holy Father... is very clear that, of course, the teachings of the Church must be preserved and passed on. However, we need to do this in a way that the Holy Father says is creative. We need to do it in a way that we look for new strategies that address the hearts of people.

I give away thousands of paintings for free.

Whenever I can make it work out, and schedule permitting, I like to help young filmmakers.

I don't find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

You need to find a way to propel this creativity to the masses. People get brainwashed and they start to forget what's good.

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.

You never know how your work is going to be received, and to have it be not just received by the people who wanted it or knew about it or our traditional fan base, which is pretty big, but also having it spill over to everybody who plays games, and then those people telling everybody else who doesn't play games - that's what it became.

I think actors have a huge responsibility because of the vastness of their outreach. I am a big believer of the good that film, television, and theater can do, and I want to be a part of that. Throughout my career, I want to keep telling amazing stories and inspiring people.

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.

I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is a popular medium and has a broad reach. There have been films with ghazals, classical and folk songs sung by local artists, which gave them popularity.

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to come to my studio.

I think you have a responsibility as an artist to continually reach a hand out and try and inspire people.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they called the largest art project in the planet's history. We do a lot with art and music and things.

As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.

No, there is no 'need' for me to do a social cinema.

I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.