Cultural Policy Quotes

China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

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

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend hundreds of millions of dollars subsidizing film production, extend interest-free loans to designated filmmakers, and have placed quotas not only on imports but on television time.

It is not within the competence of the public authorities to determine culture. Their function is to promote and protect the cultural life of everyone, including that of minorities.

I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one.

The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.

The relationship between government and art must necessarily be a delicate one. It would not be appropriate for the government to try to define what is good or what is true or what is beautiful. But government can provide nourishment to the ground within which these ideas spring forth from the seeds of inspiration within the human mind.

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

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

Certainly, 'creativity' has been a vital plank of New Labour strategy. It not only hands out money with the enthusiasm of a Medici, but also invites the talented arts world into the very heart of government.

I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were supported also by the state.

In Europe, unlike the States, they have a cultural policy.

The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's post-1997 programme has been a determination to increase access as much as excellence.

There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it.

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.

The expenditure of county funds for the purpose of utilizing any language other than English, or promoting any culture other than that of the United States is prohibited.

You know that we are against major foreign equity participation in the field of culture and information. This is not only our view in the BJP.

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

In France, books are treated as an “essential good” like food and utilities, subject to low taxes.

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

The President can set the cultural agenda.

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.

I went to Havana, and I was like, "Wow, there's culture everywhere!" That was one thing that I did notice when I went to Cuba was that artists are paid to be artists, and poets are paid to be poets, and musicians are paid to be musicians by the government. The government - and I'm not saying that the Cuban government's perfect - but the government does place a value on culture.