Cultural Funding Quotes

[I am not for] spending the public money in the encouragement of the Fine Arts. Whether it is to be painting or sculpture, or both; if painting, what sort of painting, what are to be the subjects chosen, and who are to be the artists employed? All these questions furnish ample food for discussion, difference, and dispute.

Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.

Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

The arts need funding.

We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird

We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.

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

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

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.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and it doesn't trickle down unless all of society understands that we must support the arts, whether it's ballet, opera, fashion. Fashion is like opera, is like ballet, is like theatre. It's a visual theatre.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.

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

With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.