Support Art Quotes

#1. Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.

Pete Wentz

#2. ...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization.

Samuel Lipman

#3. Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

Jeffrey Deitch

#4. I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

Tony Harrison

#5. We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre in order to oppose street gangs. We should have a well-supported regional theatre in order to oppose regionalism and.

Maya Angelou

#6. Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's vibrant Central Okanagan region. Support for the performing arts is essential for the professional growth and development of our Canadian artists.

Shelly Glover

#7. More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls ... and the art world is eating those balls up!

Brian Chippendale

#8. Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

Ricky Jay

#9. Shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

Muriel Barbery

#10. In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#11. While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122)

David N. Elkins

#12. When I left the theatre and turned to writing, one of the big pulls was that, unlike the theatre, I didn't have to wait to be hired before I could do my art. That was huge. But you still have to figure out how to support your habit; it's rare and lucky when art pays the bills.

Debra Dean

#13. The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.

Kari Wahlgren

#14. I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

Lyor Cohen

#15. Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.

Martin Filler

#16. I think the arts should get big support, but my country has a lot of needs more important than film. Medication, education, food ... The poverty is overwhelming. There are simply more important things to be attended to.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#17. The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block.

Andre Maurois

#18. Sri Chinmoy is truly unique and special. He has rediscovered the lost art of special strength feats and weightlifting. He has got the biggest, heaviest calf machine in the world. It is a miracle that this man can even support this kind of weight. He is really an inspiration to me.

Bill Pearl

#19. I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.

George Brandis

#20. When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.

Donald Bren

#21. If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they've gotten good at it, and they're expected to do something else to support themselves while the industry that sells this craft supports itself very well, something is badly wrong. Morally wrong.

John Irving

#22. This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art now happily lost but carried to great perfection by your ancestors, of shifting the burden of one's support on the shoulders of others.

Edward Bellamy

#23. We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

Al Jourgensen

#24. The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#25. In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance. Awareness that dance is not just entertainment but also a form of education and healing may reverse the trend.

Judith Lynne Hanna

#26. I am grateful to organizations like the International Child Art Foundation that gives us the opportunity to see the world through the eyes of our nation's young people. I encourage you to continue to support programs that help children to discover their talents and believe in themselves.

Hillary Clinton

#27. You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

Christopher Cross

#28. One of the reasons I think we are sometimes critical of support for the arts is that art - lyric art in particular - can make us uncomfortably aware that economically expedient answers may not always be true.

Jan Zwicky

#29. Are you an artist?"
"I'm a mess is what I am," he says, holding on to the building for support. "A bloody mess. You 're the artist, mate." Then he's gone.

Jandy Nelson

#30. For me, art is like a big support group, where you go and meet people who think the same way, and you go, 'Okay, I'm not nuts.'

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

#31. At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#32. If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.

Laurence Sterne

#33. I would like to continue to make art by being able to do what I love and have that make it possible for me to support my family. I'd like to make people happy, show people a good time, and hopefully inspire some people.

Gerard Way

#34. As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

Gavin Newsom

#35. If you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live?

Danielle LaPorte

#36. The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

Ryan Hurst

#37. The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.

Theresa Sjoquist

#38. Sleep with rockstars ... Support the arts.

Bill Kaulitz

#39. Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers ...

Mark Twight

#40. In any case, perhaps the quest for data to support our actions gets overemphasized. After all, our emotions distinguish us. Art and poetry and music are from and to the human heart, as is, for many, our relationship with the land.' ~ Randy Morgenson

Eric Blehm

#41. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

Stephen King

#42. If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Yann Martel

#43. The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Saul Williams

#44. The foregrounding of health may be one part of the mission of fashion, but on a more ambitious level, this art form also provides women with clothes that support a range of views about what it means to be an interesting and desirable human being.

Alain De Botton

#45. The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

Confucius

#46. The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short Story ... But the new Short Story has gained more individuality. It supports the magazines and has invaded the newspapers

Henry Seidel Canby

#47. The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.

Tyler Cowen

#48. I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

Mark Duplass

#49. I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

Jerry Saltz

#50. I understand when there's no money for the arts in the government, but it should maybe pressure private companies to support more filmmakers. These exhibition and distribution companies are huge, and there might be incentives for them to invest more in Mexican cinema.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#51. All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Lionel Hampton

#52. It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I have and really support the people the studio's involved with. But at the end of the day I'm quite simple as an artist-it's really about the power of art.

Jeff Koons

#53. I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

Robert Bateman

#54. Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

Walter Keane