Wang Jianlin Quotes

China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

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.

Britain is home to world class creative industries and talents.

Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

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

Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.

Invest in arts, culture and people, and the big name companies will follow and bring with them well-paying jobs.

Some people think that culture is overhyped and peripheral. A season of opera is less important than the refurbishment of a school, they say. Leaving aside the poverty of imagination and aspiration implicit in such a sentiment, it also ignores hardheaded economic reality: Britain, and London in particular, makes big money from culture.

A lot of my work involves criss-crossing London to visit the many hundreds of projects, theaters, galleries, museums and groups that comprise the capital's astonishingly rich cultural life.

Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

Culture is evolving, and I'm along for the ride.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.

A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that.