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My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

— Robert Wilson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

— Charlton Heston

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

— David Dinkins

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

— Michael Bloomberg

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

— Donna Karan

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

— Charlie Chaplin

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

— Kathleen Battle

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

— Lewis H. Lapham

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

— Neville Marriner

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

— John Guare

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

— Saul Bellow

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