Jane Alexander Quotes

I'm one of the strongest advocates for the arts you'll ever find!

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

We must carry the arts to the people, not wait for the people to come to the arts.

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

There has been a genuine willingness from many in the arts sector to try to understand people who are not within the arts elite.

Art should be for everyone, not just the rich.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

It's great that 'Glee' is making viewers more aware of the arts. People appreciate it.

I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.

I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.

… perhaps we are awakening to the realization that if individuals can no longer patronize the arts in the way they did in the old days, we may come to a time where the public will undertake to do this for its own pleasure and profit.

I'm not really interested in creating things to be seen inside a private gallery. I'm interested in creating things that are all around us, that engage us. I just find the things that I respond to are useful.

The art that I do is for the people. It is about engaging a new audience who wouldn't necessarily go to art galleries and museums and painting on the street is the best way to do that.

I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.

Just as a city cannot protect its manufacturing base without keeping its factories, we cannot have a strong arts sector without studios, rehearsal space, and performance venues.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

For my money, all theatre should be free.

Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.

I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.