Munira Mirza 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 need funding.

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

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

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.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

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

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

When you have a community that's strong in the arts, it brings all sorts of attention and different businesses into the community.

It's nearly impossible to make a living in the arts.

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

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

It is not true that I oppose government funding of 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.

I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.

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

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

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

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

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.

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?