Quotes from Jane Alexander

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

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.

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.