Damian Woetzel Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

The arts need funding.

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.

If the arts are in peril, we must do our small part to to fight the good fight and protect and preserve.

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

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

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.

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.

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

We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.

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

My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

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.

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

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

Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.

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.