Art Support Quotes

I feel like we have to fight for art.

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

Look: I download music illegally, if I really want it. But I always then buy the record - I support art.

There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.

I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

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.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army of conservators, technicians, people who maintain these things, the market.

Seoul has many good tourism resources, including nature, history and people. To take advantage of these, we have to make efforts, to preserve nature, restore historic properties and support the nation's dynamic culture and art.

I read up a lot about ceramics and collect them, but when you make something, it's very difficult to like it. I quite like appreciating and supporting what someone else does.

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.