Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.

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

Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.

I think it would be criminal if there was no art in school.

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

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.

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

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

I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never able to apply to a decent college because I had no math, no science - I was allowed to just paint all day and write.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. I did a tiny bit in the one school in Paris, and it was wonderful because you'd have a nude taking a crazy position, and you'd have 10 seconds to do a drawing. Then you'd do a one-minute drawing.

When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

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

I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.