Arts Council Quotes

#1. The Arts Council of England, in a 1998 report on 11 countries, found that Germany spent $85 per capita on the arts. The United States spent a shocking $6. And Canada, in its stubborn balance, spent $46 ... It's the Canadian way to be halfway between the Old and New worlds.

Michael Audain

#2. If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

Neville Marriner

#3. Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

Germaine Greer

#4. We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

Ann Macbeth

#5. I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

Dennis Potter

#6. I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

Michael Longley

#7. In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

Timothy West

#8. Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

Mary Doria Russell

#9. I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Alexander Stoddart

#10. 'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. It's distributed by two government bodies, the National Human Rights Commission and the Jakarta Arts Council.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#11. If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

Robert Wilson

#13. Death is the continuing of life ... the next part of our life. It's like walking through a door, you know? Walking through the door marked "Death": It's the beginning of a new part of our journey.

Rosemary Altea

#14. cowered in her seat. In her head, she heard Emmanouil's voice

Patricia Wilson

#15. Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

Fay Weldon

#16. Nobody has it coming.

Paul Kalanithi

#17. We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

Mac Thornberry

#18. I'm Eloise. This is probably a bad time to tell you but I'm your G.P. I was trying to save you, but evidently I was too late.

Alyssa Rose Ivy

#19. Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Henry Ward Beecher

#20. Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

Gary Hume

#21. Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there.

Elliott Abrams

#22. God's wraith is really only the face of love refused.

Peter Kreeft