Giving people access to art empowers them to alter their own thinking. Altered thinking leads to lasting change.

Our stories can not be limited to the space in our museums. We can become street curators taking art places where no museums exist.

Our financial investments through memberships and donations to cultural institutions demonstrating a commitment to an exclusive voice become a powerful weapon for confronting racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, and xenophobia.

When leaders of established cultural institutions fail to adjust their systems to provide access to everyone, it is our responsibility to disrupt the system.

Our dream is to create cultural institutions that are as diverse inside as the world outside.

A homogeneous world is a fantasy. Nature is diversity. And creatives are the purveyors of culture.

Are we willing to share our platforms to give other creatives a strong voice?

My fantasy for all creatives is to claim our rightful place at the table, and if the table isn't open then we create our own.

Our art is as essential to life as food, shelter, and clothing.

Creatives are the ones able to think of new things and make new ways. We challenge ideas and expand minds, and our creation is the power to unify our divide.

If impossible is potential, then fantasy becomes a dream. And a dream is an attainable goal that requires hard work, persistence, determination, and strategy.

For many, it's a life-long quest to have a seat at the table. And instead of us receiving an invitation to join, we hear a determined voice that there is no room.

Empathy is about knowing and being known.

Change is terrifying because it’s 99% of the time positive, and if we don’t change we die.

When we are talking about complexity, we are talking about mistakes and successes.

Out there is where all the great ideas are—giving other people the chance to give input.

Being able to discover what makes you happy is a very important thing.

Most of my life changing moments were routed in a fantasy world.

You don't have to look at technology for inspiration for technology projects. Look at all of the other people who are making unusual connections, take the best of that, and say, 'can we replicate some of that but can technology be completely invisible in the process?'

You really have to focus on people. You have to understand what motivates them, otherwise if you lock yourself in a lab, create something that you think is going to change the world and then you bring it out into the real world, everyone will be terrified, anxious, and afraid.

I'm blown away and compelled to share this amazing knowledge that we as a human race have gleaned about our place in the universe. We still don't fully understand how the universe originated, how life on earth began, how it thrives at the deepest depths of our oceans, atop mountains, in deserts, or even in the cold reaches of space.

Welfare is a state of mind, not just an economic condition.

The goal is not to train artists, the goal is to use the arts as a strategy to educate the kids.

Don't judge the book by its cover, you never know, in what form, your next leader is going to show up.

If you treat people like world-class citizens, they act like world-class citizens.