20 Quotes by Jane Alexander

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.

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.

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.

Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.

Well, in the 1990 reauthorization legislation, there was a phrase that said we do not fund obscenity as defined by a court of law.

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.

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.