Quotes About Public

The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.

People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.