California’s New Poet Laureate Al Young On Art:

“It is only very young and inexperienced cultures that don’t understand that art and culture are the most important byproducts of any society. You’re not remembered for your armies or your navies…. You’re remembered for your music and for your stories. For your literature. For your dance. For your film. For your painting. For your great art. That is what ennobles a society.”