Art Quote by Peter Maxwell Davies

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

— Richard Eyre

Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It's the biggest…

— Cornelia Parker

What's depressing, in a way, thinking of Margaret Thatcher legacy - and she was no doubt great in many ways - but the arts…

— Gregory Doran

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

— Oscar Wilde

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that…

— Ken Danby

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

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

— Chuck Close

I have been very lucky, and I think it all goes back to state subsidy for the arts. I gained my training and confidence…

— Phyllida Lloyd

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its…

— Edmund Wilson

My own view is that the arts are neither superior nor inferior to anything else that goes on in schools.

— Michael Rosen

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

— Michel de Montaigne

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

— Isaiah Mustafa