Peter York Quotes

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

The arts need funding.

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

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

I can’t go around being on committees and thumping for government subsidies for art—I hate committees!

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.

I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee.

We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

There must be no question for us that we in the European Union and the eurozone stand by Greece in solidarity.

Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.

From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.

I love that President and Mrs. Obama are embracing the arts. I am so delighted.

There are two big beasts in the arts: the BBC and Sky Arts - challenging, leading the way.

Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.

I feel like Canada is really good at nurturing their artists, and America's not so good at that. The artistic community is so important to a country.

If the arts are in peril, we must do our small part to to fight the good fight and protect and preserve.

It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.

You don't have to take my word for it, obviously, but in making 1,000 videos, 98 per cent of them I lost money on. So I know a thing or two about staying true and rising above the money. Because if I was for the money I would be someone who'd put up Coca Cola in my videos left and right.

How it works: it's like I have a tour, so there's, you know, some income from that. We have merchandise. There's income from that. Then on YouTube, there's ad revenue... so, you know, YouTube puts ads on the videos, and we need a little bit of that.