Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

There are two big beasts in the arts: the BBC and Sky Arts - challenging, leading the way.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

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

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

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

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?

Invest in arts, culture and people, and the big name companies will follow and bring with them well-paying jobs.

I grew up in a nonprofit theater company in the heartland of central California, so I am very aware of the importance that company had not only on my life but my community.

An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.

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

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

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

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

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

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

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 have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

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.

All community development, and most economic development, happens locally