Public Art Quotes
Collection of top 55 famous quotes about Public Art
Public Art Quotes & Sayings
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An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.
— Samuel R. Delany
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
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
— Golda Meir
Changing clothes in a public restroom is an acquired skill, one that becomes an art when the bathroom floor hasn't been washed in a decade or more.
— Seanan McGuire
The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody,
— Keith Haring
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
The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.
— Lloyd Kaufman
One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
a square is also an organism, not just a work of art and architecture [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].
— Catie Marron
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
— Barry Commoner
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
— Maurice Chevalier
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent
— Oscar Wilde
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
— Walter J. Phillips
Art is the word we give to our feelings made public.
— Pleasefindthis
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
— Oscar Wilde
If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.
— Robert Graham
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
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
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
Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ...
— Elizabeth Janeway
In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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 educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
— David Elliott
My art became very public.
— Joey Skaggs
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
— Jean Cocteau
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
— Dave Barry
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
— James Broughton
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 artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.
— Robert Breault
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
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
— Jonathan Swift
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
— Camille Paglia
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, What man does with his aloneness.
— Kenneth Rexroth
He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible.
— Dorothy Dunnett
Believing in one's own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.
— Cindy Sherman
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
— Gustave Flaubert
Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
— Miyamoto Musashi
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
— John Grierson
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
