“The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.” IfsDoeArtPayTaxesOrdinaryBlokes Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.” ShouldWritingHumansArtSoundGrowthPayClearFailingStudentsReaderDisciplineTaxesResearchScientistGravesProseConventionsSetbackExplosivesArt Of Writing Book:Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age
“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.” ShouldWellsArtGovernmentViewsNumbersTaxesArt IsAreasGreat Art Author:Charlton Heston
“I had to go on TV with the president of the Catholic League, which is not an official organization at all, just a lot of Catholics, or maybe it's just this guy. He demanded to de-fund art completely and argued that taxpayers should not pay for it. I said people who represent the Catholic Church shouldn't talk about taxes.” PeopleShouldArtSaidGuyPresidentChurchPayTvsGoes OnTaxesOrganizationCatholicLeagueOfficialsFundThis GuyTaxpayersCatholic Church Author:Fran Lebowitz
“My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.” ArtFormArtistTaxesMusicianConcernCollaborationSongwriters Author:Sufjan Stevens
“I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.” WantArtI CanEnoughPayRiskTaxesBraveIncomeJailIncome TaxKent Author:Corita Kent
“As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of ugly, twisted metal to be displayed in front of or inside government buildings, in the name of 'art' that was obviously never meant to give the public any enjoyment and often represented a thumbing of the artist's nose at the public.” GivingArtFactsBigsGovernmentArtistNamesPayFrontsBuildingTaxesUglyAcceptedNosesEnjoymentMetalsTwistedTaxpayersBucks Author:Thomas Sowell
“Despite all the taxes people pay, there supposedly isn't any money in this country for art. Of course, this makes an artist ask himself: "Well, then, what are you doing with the 100 million I pay each year? What happened to that money?" And he doesn't get an answer.” PeopleArtCountryArtistTaxes Author:Georg Baselitz