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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. -- Jim Drain
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen. -- Antony Gormley
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. -- Sol LeWitt
I wouldnt be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had. -- Matthew Morrison
If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance. -- Robert Graham
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. -- Dave Barry
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness. -- Kenneth Rexroth
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories. -- Barbara Kruger
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional -- Gavin Newsom
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. -- Carole King
In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players. -- Janet Echelman
I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had. -- Matthew Morrison
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional. -- Gavin Newsom
I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local cafÃ©, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength. -- Martin Firrell
My art became very public. -- Joey Skaggs
Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees. -- Antony Gormley
One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. -- Oscar Wilde
The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important. -- David Elliott
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. -- James Broughton
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. -- Golda Meir
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. -- Camille Paglia
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. -- Barry Commoner
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. -- John Grierson
Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared. -- Shepard Fairey
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. -- Paul Gauguin
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. -- Tom Wolfe
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses. -- Keith Haring
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. -- Agnes Denes
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science. -- Michael Leunig
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position. -- Thom Mayne
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking. -- Ralph Bakshi
One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself -- Robert Mapplethorpe
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. -- Evan Esar
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. -- Jean Cocteau
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. -- Oscar Wilde
art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ... -- Elizabeth Janeway
Believing in oneâ??s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder. -- Cindy Sherman
In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em. -- Will Rogers
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art. -- Dave Barry
The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty. -- Karl Marx
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment. -- George Lucas
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste. -- Walter J. Phillips
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. -- Glenn Gould
The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing. -- Bruno Munari
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. -- Oscar Wilde
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public. -- Paul Emsley
The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies. -- Lloyd Kaufman
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. -- George Henry Lewes
Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience. -- Ibn Warraq
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. -- Eric Drooker
Politicians are masters in the art of mixing truth and deceit and serving the deadly cocktail to the public as a panacea to their problems -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
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. -- Teresita Fernandez
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. -- Anne Enright
I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them. -- Conrad Veidt
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. -- Christian Bauman
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. -- Vittorio De Sica
Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers. -- Richard Meier
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. -- Oscar Wilde
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it. -- John Wayne
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art. -- Igor Stravinsky
My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural. -- Lee Maracle
Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view. -- Simon Van Booy

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