"Art helps us overcome our fears...

...by giving them story, color, shape, and meaning

It is not merely the making of an aesthetic product

Art is a form of magic that stands between us and a hostile universe

Art has metaphysical power

It imposes a form on our terrors... and on our wishes

The day I understood this about Art, is the day I found my way."

   

– Pablo Picasso

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“We live in an extraordinary time of struggle.

And to have anything less on stage is a cop out.”

  

 – Joseph Papp