Art Quote by Sarah Schulman Download Open image “MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.” — Sarah Schulman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Gentrification Neighborhood Program World
The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
What an invaluable handbook! Lori A. May has done her research, knows her stuff, and, whats best, lets the programs speak for themselves through her extensive interviews. Theres a chorus of quotes from faculty, students, and graduates in The Low-Residency MFA Handbook. Anyone making the decision to apply for an MFA should consult this wise guide. Mays clarity and authority… — Molly Peacock Copy Share
If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking leaks into… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Academies place a high premium on local community engagement. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The most effective social programs are in local communities. They know best where funding should go. — Ashley Biden Copy Share Image
Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces. — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or… — Henry Cisneros Copy Share Image
Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there. — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I was impressed by a program called New Roots, which helps women refugees from countries in conflict to start new lives in the U.S.… — Rebecca Pidgeon Copy Share Image
“Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.” — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“I realized that I’m not a lesbian anymore. I realized that women don’t have fun together. I realized that that’s not love. I realized… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
I went to my 30th high school reunion, and I could tell who was gay and who was straight because the gay people were… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“You’re not user-friendly. You’re too needy. You have no social currency. You’re a freak. Without a normative side, you can’t get in. That’s it.… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“Doc didn’t have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn’t need one. He could always tell what was… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
