Ben Daniels Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

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.

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.

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

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

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

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

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

… 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.

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

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

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?

The arts need funding.

The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.

The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a year; it used to be 28. At least Sky, with its two arts channels, is trying.

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.