Ian Beattie Quotes

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.

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

I'd clean house at the National Endowment for the Arts ... the place would be shut down, padlocked and fumigated.

The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.

I grew up in a nonprofit theater company in the heartland of central California, so I am very aware of the importance that company had not only on my life but my community.

Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.

Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.

The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support.

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

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.

The arts need funding.

The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.

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.

You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.

I am made in Brooklyn, U.S.A. and I am definitely in the heavyweight-title house.

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.

Ajax has always been about homegrown players developed in a small country.

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

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.

It breaks my heart to hear of our theatres struggling to survive. As well as playing a vital role in community life, they're guardians of our heritage and should be cherished.

When you look at the increase in the number of scripted series and the number of unscripted hours, the pool of producers hasn't grown at the same rate. So I think there's a bit of a creative tax on the system.

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.