Paul Allen Quotes

I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

I want to continually find ways to bring my ideas off the stage and into the real world, into the streets. I think I can make the world a better place, if only for a little while.

… perhaps we are awakening to the realization that if individuals can no longer patronize the arts in the way they did in the old days, we may come to a time where the public will undertake to do this for its own pleasure and profit.

All across America, through the promotion of the arts, neighborhoods create job growth and development.

When you have a community that's strong in the arts, it brings all sorts of attention and different businesses into the community.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.

Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.

I want to be involved in a story that makes a difference.

How can art make a difference in the world?

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

I think the arts should get big support, but my country has a lot of needs more important than film. Medication, education, food... The poverty is overwhelming. There are simply more important things to be attended to.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

I like the dynamism and the joy cabare creates. I have always taken my job very seriously, but have always liked to have fun, to play. I like tradition and classicism but I have always liked to mix it up, even if it shocks at times.

I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that's a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.

I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.