Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

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

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

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

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

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

I decided to stay in art and earn some money.

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

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

Just as a city cannot protect its manufacturing base without keeping its factories, we cannot have a strong arts sector without studios, rehearsal space, and performance venues.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

But it's hard to support yourself from music when nobody knows you.

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

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

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?

All across America, through the promotion of the arts, neighborhoods create job growth and development.

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.

I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.

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

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

The arts need funding.