“New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.” PeopleWayHardHomeArtistSidesCitiesNew YorkSafetyMajorityFilledDesperateTranquilityJungleScams Author:Scott Cohen
“I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion.” StillsIdeasWantedSchoolJobsRememberArtistMy OwnTeachingNew YorkSafetyCushionsGradGrad School Author:Brice Marden
“We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.” UseArtistCultureTalentSafetyCakeFringe Book:The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters Source: The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters
“When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes for someone else to make the end product essentially. My scripts are just directions for the artist to draw pages and the pages are what is seen. I kind of feel like it's a safety net, you're able to hide behind the art to a certain extent, and in television you're able to hide behind the actors and the production, but with novels, your words are it” WritingKindArtBookArtistNovelSafetyComicComic BookSafety Net Author:Robert Kirkman
“Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.” KnowsMatterMomentsHappensArtistNextDarkBearsCitizensWalkingIllusionNo Matter WhatSafetyNobody KnowsWhistlingWalking In The Dark Author:James A. Baldwin
“The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence - as inoffensively as possible - like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow - the philosopher, the artist, the believer.” WorldCarePoliticalArtistRoomsShadowSafetyPhilosopherBelieverSubstanceTrendsRegimesWho CaresRecipesSequenceDissatisfied Author:Ernst Junger
“We artists know how to address transformation-- how to grow empathy, passion, and collectivity-- Spirituality knows how to address transformation-- but not with formal systems-- Systems breed safety-- follow this and you will be this, do this and you will do that, get here and you will get there. But empathy, passion, and collectivity grow from the recognition that we are not safe, that no one is safe, that our only hope is to care for ourselves and each other, and that we must each figure out our own way to do that.” ArtistSpiritualityPassionHopeCommunityEmpathyTransformationSafetySelfcareTop Problem Author:Shellen Lubin