Arts Quote by David Selby

The arts are a green industry with a very high rate of return. This is not money thrown away by any stretch of the…

— Robert Schenkkan

I have long argued for the arts to have the recognition and funding they need, not only because they brighten our lives, but also…

— Luciana Berger

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

The arts need funding.

— Julie Andrews

“Some Americans appear to believe that there would be no arts in America were it not for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),…

— Ron Paul

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in…

— Jason Ralph

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

— John Updike

I've never claimed that this is investment art. When we first started out, all the art colleges and universities across the country would sort…

— Bob Ross

In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we…

— Louise Slaughter

When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.

— Jenova Chen

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their…

— Anna Deavere Smith