“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive…”

“To harmonize the whole is the task of art.”

“Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness, the spirit)”

“Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness”

“The arts…are uniquely situated to affect human perceptual habits because the “work” directly on the organs and processes of perception.”

“We are social animals, deeply interpenetrated with one another, who emerge out of relationships.”