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

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

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

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

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.

An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

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.

Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.

The commercial and subsidised theatre are intrinsically linked. I wouldn't have had the career I have had without the opportunities I had through the subsidised sector. However, I do think, in any walk of life, subsidy for the sake of subsidy is not always healthy.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

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

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.

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

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.

All across America, through the promotion of the arts, neighborhoods create job growth and development.

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 need funding.

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.

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

I hope that subsidised theatres continue to be rewarded for the wonder of talent they provide to this industry, on stage and off.

Certainly, 'creativity' has been a vital plank of New Labour strategy. It not only hands out money with the enthusiasm of a Medici, but also invites the talented arts world into the very heart of government.

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.