One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
There's an audience for all kinds of great art.
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
Art has to be reflective of our society.
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