Quotes About Support

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

Great artists need great clients.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

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.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.