Quotes About Funding The Arts

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Lucy Powell

#3. The future is unpredictable by man.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.

Dante Alighieri

#5. You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

Oscar Robertson

#6. Consistency, constancy, and undeviating diligence to maintain Christian character are a must if the older generation is to command respect, or even a hearing, from the young.

Billy Graham

#7. I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

Julie Benz

#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. It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

Juliet Stevenson

#11. 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

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

Camille Paglia

#13. the storm is always too much, because the storm comes from the whole, and a tree is just an individual. Then

Osho

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us

Nicole Reed

#18. 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

#19. My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. 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

#21. (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

#22. 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

#23. Every "yes" changes something in me. Every "yes" is a bit more transformative. Every "yes" sparks some new phase of revolution.

Shonda Rhimes

#24. My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle's wings, and fly forth.

Juliet Marillier

#25. If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible.

Richard Dawkins

#26. 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

#27. Everything is possible. Anything is possible at any time and at any time in life. That's such an affirmative kind of feeling.

Lillete Dubey

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

Norm Dicks