Jane Alexander Quotes

#1. Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

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#2. This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

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#3. Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

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#4. Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

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#5. I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

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#6. It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.

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#7. Part of the reason I make things realistic is, I don't really want to have to explain my work. What I wish to communicate is done so people can make their own interpretation, and if it's different to my idea it doesn't matter.

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#8. There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

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#9. I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

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#10. What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

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#11. No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

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#12. All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

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