National Endowment For the Arts Quotes

This is just the old loyalty oath in new clothing.

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

It's not censorship. It's common sense use of the taxpayer's money.

[I am not for] spending the public money in the encouragement of the Fine Arts. Whether it is to be painting or sculpture, or both; if painting, what sort of painting, what are to be the subjects chosen, and who are to be the artists employed? All these questions furnish ample food for discussion, difference, and dispute.

What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.

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

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

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.

I don’t know much about the arts, so I’m going to keep my cotton-picking hands off and let you people take care of it.

What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

… perhaps we are awakening to the realization that if individuals can no longer patronize the arts in the way they did in the old days, we may come to a time where the public will undertake to do this for its own pleasure and profit.

To have a National Endowment for the Arts is to sanction creativity, to provide space to support the poetic, and to give meaning to struggle, hope and life. The artist interprets and represents for us perspectives so that we can question, focus and reexamine our worlds, to imagine the possible and the impossible. The culture and arts of America are our greatest asset.

You cut their money back, for one thing... I go back a long way with the NEA.

I'd clean house at the National Endowment for the Arts ... the place would be shut down, padlocked and fumigated.

What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.

If there's ever a moment when I am an Anglophile, it's when I see so many theatres in this country that have what I would call federal funding.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage, for it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a nation.

The reason the National Endowment needs to exist is simply that the not-for-profit sector cannot make it on its own.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'

With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.

In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly, I sort of 'came out' as an artist.

I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.

I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.