Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.
The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.
In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you... Those are the same difficulties you'll have as a professional artist, so the school is the place to notice them and to find a way to make them work.
Art and politics have many things in common.