Arts Funding Quotes

#1. I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

Camille Paglia

#2. When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for?

Kazuo Ishiguro

#3. The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

James Wolcott

#4. The gospel never claims to produce perfect people in this life, and these individuals might or might not be genuine believers in the first place.

Vincent Cheung

#5. Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

Lucy Powell

#6. Every man has his price.

Robert Walpole

#7. The strange fact that out of millions of people in the world, your mother and father met and decided to get married to each other. And out of the millions of sperm, that the one with your genes was the one that made it to the egg and fertilised the egg. I'll never forget it.

A. J. Jacobs

#8. We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird

Julia Stiles

#9. I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

Rita Dove

#10. What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.

Ann Coulter

#11. It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

Camille Paglia

#12. The moon upon the ocean
is swept around in motion
but without ever knowing
the reason for its flowing
in motion on the ocean
the moon still keeps on moving
the waves still keep on waving
and I still keep on going

Enya

#13. Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Support for the arts
merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

Robert A. Heinlein

#15. I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.

David McCullough

#16. Come back to me, Ava.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#17. All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

Ann Macbeth

#18. Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

Aja Naomi King

#19. There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.

Danny Meyer

#20. (This is why it is so frustrating that funding for arts programs in schools has been decimated. And those cuts stem from a fundamental misconception that art classes are about learning to draw. In fact, they are about learning to see.) Whether

Ed Catmull

#21. This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

Norm Dicks