Jane Alexander quotes Born: 10/28/1939 Country: usa

• But art is not necessarily without controversy. (Jane Alexander) [art]
• All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member. (Jane Alexander) [art/art/process]
• I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. (Jane Alexander) [think/bad/reputation]
• I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in. (Jane Alexander) [age]
• I don't know where art is going to go in the future, so I can't hypothesize about whether I would still want to be at the NEA if it got into any issue of morality. (Jane Alexander) [art/future/]
• I guess what the president is saying with regard to the private sector is that we want to see more consistent private giving. (Jane Alexander) [president/more]
• I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supported through not-for-profit theater. (Jane Alexander)
• I've seen society change so much since the '60s and early '70s, and still we have the endowment and still we have art. (Jane Alexander) [society/change/art]
• If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in question, we at the endowment will be prepared to defend it. (Jane Alexander) [content/art/question/willpower]
• It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. (Jane Alexander) [day/age/art]
• Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. (Jane Alexander)
• Nazi Germany produced some posters that would certainly rank as artistically meritorious; their political content was anathema to most people. (Jane Alexander) [content/people]
• No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. (Jane Alexander) [art]
• Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved. (Jane Alexander)
• Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art. (Jane Alexander) [point/art/business/art]
• The endowment has never funded anything completely by itself, except in a few cases. (Jane Alexander)
• There's a lot of people in any given community - rural, inner-city, or whatever - who have simply no access to the arts. (Jane Alexander) [people]
• We have only two criteria, really - artistic merit and excellence - keeping in mind, now, the diversity of the American people. (Jane Alexander) [excellence/mind/people]
• Well, in the 1990 reauthorization legislation, there was a phrase that said we do not fund obscenity as defined by a court of law. (Jane Alexander) [legislation/right]
• What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts. (Jane Alexander) [look/high/excellence]

Calendar

Sun Mon Tue Wen Thu Fri Sat Jan 4 [93] 5 [71] 6 [117] 7 [24] Jan 8 [15] 9 [115] 10 [110] 11 [58] 12 [128] 13 [18] 14 [100] Jan 15 [63] 16 [50] 17 [91] 18 [78] 19 [60] 20 [50] 21 [50] Jan 22 [97] 23 [89] 24 [132] 25 [132] 26 [62] 27 [78] 28 [50] Jan 29 [85] 30 [102] 31 [71] 1 [85] 2 [53] 3 [42] 4 [100] Feb

The Best Authors

Search

Pop by Searches

Best Quote

Worst Quote