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Jane Alexander
American
Actress
About the author
It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.
Jane Alexander,
American
Actress
#Art
#Day
#Age
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,
American
Actress
#Want
#Art
#Americans
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
Jane Alexander,
American
Actress
#Years
#Reputation
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,
American
Actress
#Living
#Age
Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.
Jane Alexander,
American
Actress
Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
Jane Alexander,
American
Actress
#Now
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,
American
Actress
#Art
#World
#Business
What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
Jane Alexander,
American
Actress
#Excellence
No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.
Jane Alexander,
American
Actress
#Art