Reflections and Visions: Business-Arts Alliances
David Rockefeller Jr., Chairman,
Rockefeller & Co., Inc.
"We all need role models, mentors, beacons of inspiration in our lives.
...I believe it is the entrepreneurial and experimental arts organizations that both challenge and fuel the large and established ones.
The Internet has fulfilled the prophecy of a global village. I do not believe that big corporations can finesse their responsibility to define and support the particular communities in which they operate most actively.
...I would suggest it is the arts which, because they simultaneously embrace the particular and the universal, can best help us to grasp this world full of tension and technology.
In other words, the arts have the capacity to do what is perhaps most
needed in the world today; they honor what is valuable and distinct in
each human being, while they force us to acknowledge our shared condition."