Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
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When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have to stand up and say that even when there was dire poverty ten blocks away from Tiffany Studios in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was art and creativity within.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.
I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.
I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
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