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Winning the Facebook 10K Race

On November 9, 2011, the California Arts Council became the first arts agency in the nation to acquire 10,000 "likes" on Facebook. How did the agency achieve this? And--perhaps more importantly--why?

 

 

Art Works Stories

Lula Washington
Dance Theatre

Our grantees are making a difference all over the state. Read their stories in ArtWorks! and be inspired.

 

 

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

–Pablo Picasso

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.

–Zimbabwe proverb

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

–Michelangelo

At Boeing, innovation is our lifeblood. The arts inspire innovation by opening our minds to think in new ways.

–W. James McNerney, Jr.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

–Paul Klee

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

–James McNeill Whistler

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

–Katherine Hepburn

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

–Henry Miller

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

–Pablo Picasso

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

–C.S. Lewis

Alexander Graham Bell was a pianist whose invention of the telephone began with a simple musical game.

–Bob Root-Bernstein, Ph. D

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

–Michelangelo

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

–Russell Simmons

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

–Pablo Picasso

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

–Marc Chagall

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my reality.

–Frida Kahlo

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

–Pablo Picasso

The trick with art is to spend less time making it than people spend looking at it.

–Banksy

The worst enemy to creativity is - self doubt.

–Sylvia Plath

Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.  

–William Stafford

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