"It is time for Dallas to evolve from being a metropolitan city to being a cosmopolitan one. As artists, we are responsible for our city's cultural development, whether we want this responsibility or not is irrelevant. When we design a building, paint a pattern on dishes, or paint a mural on a wall, we are sculpting the attitude of our city. What we have here is a choice:

Do we want to take responsibility on consciously as an organized group and help set the tone for this new century? Or do we want to continue to contribute our talents and vision individually (to our city's culture)?

We all know that with opportunity comes responsibility. But what we are seeing before us with the present situation is that responsibility can be the harbinger of opportunity. Do we want to take it?"