Mary Doria Russell Quotes

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

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

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

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.

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

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

I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

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

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

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.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

One measure of the degree of civilization attained by a nation might fairly be the extent to which the nation's creative artists are supported, encouraged and esteemed by the nation as a whole.

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

They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

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.

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

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

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

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.