Artists are not entertainers.
From Cristiano Leone Cultural Leader Award 2025 “Culture Is Freedom” Italian Design Week Washington D.C.
Artists are not entertainers. They are explorers of our collective interior. They venture into the turbulence of being so that we may recognize ourselves a new. They transform fragility to form, silence to sign, darkness into light. to support them is to share their courage to believe that creation like knowledge requires risk, patience and depth.
It is to affirm that culture is not consumption but communion that beauty is not comfort but transfiguration. Today when almost everything can be owned, monetized or consumed, culture remains among the few things that live only when offered. So let us invest not only money but trust, attention and love in those who create today because they are not only making art, they are imagining us.