#arts

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#art #arts #commission #committees #daring

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. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #at-risk #builds #century #community

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #been #every #film-makers #francisco

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#bringing #eyes #foot #generating #improving

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #arts education #california #education #especially

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#cultural #essential #francisco #part #recognize

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#calm #echo #environment #hear #starts

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#boring #bus #everyone #get #getting

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#diverse #everybody #feel #generation #i

If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death. ↗

— Julia Ormond

#become #death #easy #edge #kiss