Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

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

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

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

Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.

The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn't that academically inclined, it was a great escape.

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

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!

The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.

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

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

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

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.

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

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

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

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

… 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 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.

Drama schools say if arts funding is cut, people can't afford to go, but I didn't go to drama school.

I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.

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.

What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.

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.