The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
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I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing.
I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.
We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
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 do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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