Melvyn Bragg Quotes

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.

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

There are two big beasts in the arts: the BBC and Sky Arts - challenging, leading the way.

I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop.

The National Endowment for the Arts distributes money to all 50 states, and they try to do their best to distribute to rural and suburban areas. It's one of the great things about the program. It raises the awareness of culture throughout the population.

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

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 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.

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

… 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.

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.

Unless we build theater and performing arts, then we're not going to be creating future patrons. We need to make it accessible.

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

I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

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.

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

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

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.

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country.

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