public money should not be wasted on supporting the arts; they should help themselves.Give your opinion.?

Question

i am currently doing a project on wheather the public money should or should not be used to support the arts,or it a waste to support the arts.so help me by giving your frunk opinion and views.(if possible with statistics)

Answer 1

I believe the arts deserve public support if the public see the arts as being for the public good, just like we see schools, police, highways, utilities, etc. as being for the public good.

Personally I see the arts as being good for society and deserving of public support, but I have little sense that the public looks for anything other than entertainment and could not care less about the arts...except on rare occasions. I believe we look to the arts when we want to remove ourselves from the mundane and reach beyond ourselves, not unlike we look towards things spiritual in times of need.

Use of public money? I believe the arts, like religion, deserve tax exempt status.

Public money is used for music and art education in the public schools. I believe music and art have a rightful place in education and deserve that support. I also believe the other performing arts, dance and drama deserve to be part of primary and secondary public school education.

Do I believe religion should be taught in schools? I believe that all religions (including atheism) should be discussed with equality in school, as part of cultural history, philosophical thought or whatever...

Answer 2

In the 1980's when the NEA was supporting the arts in the US, it cost the taxpayers something like less than "one cent per person per year". Our politicians have cut even that meager amount, tho how cutting such a small budget might impact say ... our military budget or security budget is beyond me.

Public money used for the arts AND art education is the foundation for an informed nation. Art education makes our kids smarter, it's proven.

Art showings and performances make the viewer smarter and challenged.

It's in the best interest of all involved to support the arts by using public money!

Answer 3

Yes, it should go to the arts. As a band student, I am greatly influenced by music in my life. I'm a senior this year, with my main instrument as tuba. I dont really have anything to say, but I think a lot of young people's lives depend on the arts in schools. That's somes's only extracurricular activity; and some's favorite, such as mine. So, in the perspective of a young person, the arts should be kept.

Answer 4

I am not sure, I grew up with medicate and stuff. If would be nice to have health care knowing that if I happen to broke a bone I could go to the doctor without paying an arm and a leg.

Answer 5

I feel that some public money should go to support the arts, because it helps us better ourselves. The more you know in one subject, the more willing you are to learn in others. Maybe if we had more support in all areas of learning, you could have learned how to type a well put-together paragraph that didn't have so many spelling and grammar errors in it.

Answer 6

progress is difficult to quantify, but do you believe that we should try to progress as a people? the 911 commission said that the biggest failure in stopping the attacks was because of a lack of creativity. art stimulates the brain. and if everyone were smarter would that not be a good thing? every one stop and look around.... do you see the art? yes its that sock you are wearing, that color on the wall, the way you comb your hair, the T.V. you watch. I'm sorry but people who don't want to spend money on the arts can just tune out on the world, oh, they already have.

Answer 7

The short answer from this performing artist is that if you want your community to thrive, you had better support the arts, publicly, privately and in every way. NO society has ever become great without a large flourishing of the Arts: Greece, Rome, Egypt, etc etc. Think about it. Art is not a secondary, but a PRIMARY need for mankind.
Communities across the US are waking up to this fact and making a lot of effort to fund the arts, because it pays back enormous dividends- tourism, food sales, shopping, you name it. Show me a city with no active arts scene and I will show you a city that is not flourishing.

Answer 8

I think public money should go to support the arts. The arts do help you to be a well rounded person. If you look at other countries, like Japan, that are ahead of us - they spend money on the arts and the arts programs there are very nice.

I'm a musician. Through music I have become much better at understanding math, other languages, social skills, english, and many other subjects. Any one who has learned anything about music theory knows that there is a lot of math involved in musical composition. In fact, Schoenburg's compositions are very mathmatical. He was a numbers guy. Every piece is written so that the the measures in the piece are mathmatically related to the very first measure of the piece.

Being both an instrumentalist and a singer has helped me learn in more ways than one. As a singer, I often sing pieces written in another language such as French, Itallian, German, Latin, and others. Many times I've had to figure out the meaning of the words of the song so that I could properly express the emotions. As an instrumentalist, I often find myself listening to how I fit in with the others in the orchestra. I have to know what not in the chordal structure I'm playing and who I'm playing with.

I'm sure that others in other performing arts areas will say the same for how they have learned while practicing their art.

Answer 9

Hey!..no artforms or artistes or organizations are supported or promoted yet in the Indian History (on an no-profitable basis). If anybody invested or spend for an artform, i m sure he himself or the organisation is promoted. It is necessary to preserve our cultural history just to remind our teenagers who live in Cocacola age. But what sense its makes to promot the sports and sportsmen who have only individual gains and crores of rupees contract with leading corporates?...who is benefitted through this?When such legends and great people who contributed to this society and culture are behind, does it make sense to award a "Padmashri" for making 10000 runs.....Stupid thinking!.....Come on our Youngsters....WAKE UP know atleast..

Answer 10

It is so easy to talk about something but it is very difficult to put it into practise, the reason being that we lost the practise since many past births! We are so caught peeping through 'other people's' windows, and criticising 'others' with statements such as: 'that person is bad', or 'that person is a cheater', 'that person is a liar', 'that person is of bad character', and this list is endless. Some ignorant people go to the extent to make profound statements such as: 'I can recognise the color of a flying bird' or 'I know the history of that person's seven generations'. This goes to show that such ignorant people have closed the doors of knowing their 'own' selves and got busy in gossipping about the 'other' or 'others'. This goes to show that we seem to have stopped loving and worrying about 'ourselves', and on the contrary we have got busy indulging in finding the shortcomings of 'others'.
Such ignorant people who are busy in digging the short comings of 'others' feel that they are far better and superior than those they criticise and that the latter are 'bad' whereas they are 'good'. By blacklisting 'other' people, it does not make our face shine 'bright'. It is believed that such an ignorant soul is trapped for countless births in playing such a deceptive game, and the soul's energy is spent in digging the shortcomings of 'others'.
Where does a person have the time to examine oneself? Hence such a person keeps on stumbling on the path of life and carries on blaming the 'other' with criticisms. Such criticisms are a mere reflection of the person who makes these criticisms.