I loved this quote taken from an interview with Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries.
"Since humans were civilized, they have had a desire to create things. Look at the Watts Towers. Here's Simon Rodia, who barely had two nickels, and spends every day collecting tile fragments, spending what little money he has to buy cement and steel and by himself puts up this crazy-beautiful monument. It comes from some deep inner human need, creating and then looking at the work of art. What's your motivation to be educated? What's your motivation to live? It's to strive for something great and beautiful and complicated. If you take away art, you have very little; obviously, if you take away food and shelter, you have nothing. I can never see them separated. You have to live, but you have to live for something."
- - Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries
"Since humans were civilized, they have had a desire to create things. Look at the Watts Towers. Here's Simon Rodia, who barely had two nickels, and spends every day collecting tile fragments, spending what little money he has to buy cement and steel and by himself puts up this crazy-beautiful monument. It comes from some deep inner human need, creating and then looking at the work of art. What's your motivation to be educated? What's your motivation to live? It's to strive for something great and beautiful and complicated. If you take away art, you have very little; obviously, if you take away food and shelter, you have nothing. I can never see them separated. You have to live, but you have to live for something."
- - Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries
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