Julie Andrews Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

… 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.

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

I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee.

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.

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.