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Jane Alexander Quotes
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Type: Actress Quotes Category: American Actress Quotes Date of Birth: October 28, 1939 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Jane Alexander Related Authors: Mae West Gene Tierney Meryl Streep Bette Davis Loretta Young Lorna Luft Gloria Swanson Angelina Jolie |
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 I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair. 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 in. Jane Alexander 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 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 It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. Jane Alexander Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector. Jane Alexander No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. Jane Alexander 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 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 What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts. Jane Alexander |
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