Our objective is to organize a group of Filipino artists for an exhibit of their works, promote SOS concept to the public and generate funds for the SOS children.

Through these events, we can highlight the silent work of SOS. If people know that we are here, we may be able to get help from them because our challenge is to raise funds to help the children.

How could we not? ... The Whitney for 70 years has followed the instincts of American artists.

All six curators were invited to bring in 40 artists' names to start the bidding war, and there was very little overlap, ... Ultimately, we had to rationalize this and do a single list.

[(CNN) --] Ezra Pound said a long time ago that artists are the antennae of the human race, ... That they actually sense and describe aspects of the world around us that the rest of us don't see because we're so busy living in it.

A culture is only as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamed by artists.