Josh Young Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

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

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

It's amazing that Sky is the only place that has two dedicated arts channels. The BBC is doing very well... but why don't they do more?

I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.

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

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

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.

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

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.

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

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.

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.

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