Melvyn Bragg Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's amazing that Sky is the only place that has two dedicated arts channels. The BBC is doing very well... but why don't they do more?

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.

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

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.

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

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

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

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.

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

In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.

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.

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.

I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.

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

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

The arts need funding.