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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.

San Francisco is an interesting place. It's always been such a nice culturally diverse environment, which it still is, but there's a lot of money there now and a lot of dot com's so it's a little different than it used to be.

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities in the world.

I'm a huge fan of the Bay Area so I always love coming to San Francisco.

San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet.

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.

While my trips are most often focused on business, I always try to take some time to experience the local culture.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.