Maureen Forrester Quotes

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

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

While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.

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.

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

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

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

The arts need funding.

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

I have long argued for the arts to have the recognition and funding they need, not only because they brighten our lives, but also because they make a tangible contribution to our national economy.

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

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!

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

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

I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.

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

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.

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

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

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

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