Quotes About Arts

When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.

I have been very lucky, and I think it all goes back to state subsidy for the arts. I gained my training and confidence and credentials in the not-for-profit world, and in England, that does not mean on the fringe of things. It means right at the centre.

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.

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.

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.

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

When the business people get done with the arts, all that's left will be entertainment.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Let's begin by noting that Washington historian Rupert Hughes is wrong when he writes in 1926, "… there is no direct allusion to Christ, and the word Christ has been found in none of Washington's almost countless autographs." 3 For George Washington wrote in 1779, "You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are." 4

Lugh Lámhfada, Lugh of the Long Hand, the senior of the gods and patron of all arts and crafts, was eventually demoted into Lugh-chromain, "stooping Lugh", and from there Anglicized into "leprechaun".

Varro produced an influential encyclopaedia, Nine Books of Disciplines, in which he outlined nine arts: grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, musical theory, medicine and architecture. Later writers omitted the last two arts.79 In Rome, by the end of the first century AD, education had been more or less standardised and the seven liberal arts identified. In turn, these would become the basis of medieval education

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

My mom was heavily in the arts; my entire family, they're all musicians and draw. They have much more artistic talent than me!

I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

I'm a Baha'i; we really believe in Baha'i faith that our work has to be our service, especially in the arts.

Emilie, as much nettled by his politeness as she might have been by an impertinence, began talking to her brother in a louder voice than good taste enjoined; she turned and tossed her head, gesticulated eagerly, and laughed for no particular reason, less to amuse her brother than to attract the attention of the imperturbable stranger. None of her little arts succeeded.

I am still not happy about your decision to press ahead independently with these ideas for revamping Wee Wendy Waif, Nobody's Child; you should have gone through the proper channels, the Department of Arts and Crafts, the Bureau of Media Affairs, the Office of Socially Responsible Literature … they are there to help you, you know.

Children in urban communities suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome in higher proportions than veterans, and they need therapeutic outlets, which arts and drama has proven to provide.

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.

Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.

A lot of people have made the valid point that if you don't believe the arts are a 'viable' job, or you think we're low-skilled, then switch off Netflix, close your books, turn your music off. If you don't think this is important then you shouldn't be allowed to enjoy it. See how great you feel with no entertainment.