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

- Jane Alexander

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

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

- Jane Alexander

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

- Jane Alexander

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

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

- Jane Alexander

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

- Jane Alexander

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