Jane Alexander

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

— Jane Alexander

When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to…

— Jane Alexander

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

— Jane Alexander

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

— Jane Alexander

Part of the reason I make things realistic is, I don’t really want to have to explain my work. What I wish…

— Jane Alexander

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

— Jane Alexander

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily…

— Jane Alexander

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

— Jane Alexander

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage…

— Jane Alexander

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

— Jane Alexander

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

— Jane Alexander

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

— Jane Alexander

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept…

— Jane Alexander