Art Quote by Walter Kirn

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and…

— Gavin Newsom

I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has become or…

— Sharon Zukin

One of the crucial underpinnings of New York as a culture capital is that there are multiple markets. There is not just one art…

— Sharon Zukin

City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.

— Charles Landry

Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And entrepreneurial artists,…

— Sharon Zukin

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a…

— Vempati Chinna Satyam

Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.

— Edward Ruscha

I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more…

— Bonnie Raitt

If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they…

— Ian MacKaye

And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who…

— Adrian Tomine

Artists are great. They jump in.

— Richard Linklater

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

— Kehinde Wiley