Quotes About Public

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

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.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.

Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

The media sells it and you live the role.

I usually never walk by a microphone.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.