Chuck Close Quotes

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.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

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

You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.

I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

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.

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.

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

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

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

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.

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.

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

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

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.

It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

We must carry the arts to the people, not wait for the people to come to the arts.

… perhaps we are awakening to the realization that if individuals can no longer patronize the arts in the way they did in the old days, we may come to a time where the public will undertake to do this for its own pleasure and profit.

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

Programs that bring the arts to young kids are always the first to be cut. It's mind-boggling to me.

Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers.

The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support.