Arts Inclusion Quotes

The National Endowment for the Arts distributes money to all 50 states, and they try to do their best to distribute to rural and suburban areas. It's one of the great things about the program. It raises the awareness of culture throughout the population.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

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.

The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.

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

We must carry the arts to the people, not wait for the people to come to the arts.

There has been a genuine willingness from many in the arts sector to try to understand people who are not within the arts elite.

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

I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.

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.