Milton Glaser, Courtesy of Hillman Curtis

"If you like Mozart and I like Mozart. We already have something in common. So, the likelyhood of our killing each other has been diminished. Art performs this pacifying function in culture in that its practitioners create commonalities. I always quote a guy named Lewis Hyde who wrote about primitive cultures where there is an exchange of gifts that cannot be kept but passed on. And the passing on of gifts is a device to prevent people from killing each other because they all become part of a single experience. His leap of imagination occurs when he says this is what artists do. Artists provide that gift to the culture so that people have something in common."

- Milton Glaser

Watch the short movie written, directed and edited by Hillman Curtis.

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