“Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.” MenNeedsWritingArtSongPaperMusic IsArt IsToolsToiletsDoersToilet Paper Author:Sxip Shirey
“Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?” PeopleIfsArtFacesPlanetsArt IsToolsSensesHealAppeals Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?” ArtAirArt IsToolsAbstractLayersTransparentKitsch Author:Robert Musil
“I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.” ThinkingWorldYearsMindArtMadeMatterLastsCoursesTechnologyDevelopmentHappeningsArt IsToolsImprovementPhenomenonDiscernmentInterfacesMind And Matter Author:Vik Muniz
“Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.” PeopleGivingShouldKindArtSolutionsArt IsToolsTransformationOptimisticAgencyAlways Believe Author:Pedro Reyes
“The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.” MenChildrenArtPlayMomentsUseFunAnimalSourceArt IsCapacityToolsProductionsUniquenessHuntersCavesCeilingsUnfoldingPlaygroundsOptimalCreativenessMilieuMural Author:Eric Hoffer