Top 1200 Public Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

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.

If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.

There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that's restoring the Clause Four as it was originally written or it's a different one, but I think we shouldn't shy away from public participation, public investment in industry, and public control of the railways.

Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.

Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.

I went to public and state schools - not at the same time. I did my art foundation course at Harrogate College of Arts. This brilliant tutor suggested I apply to Central Saint Martins. I adored it.

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of policies in the name of public health that are aimed at regulating personal behavior.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

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.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society — and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society — is not art.

To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under private and not a public direction-under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy; which, would be . . . liable to being too much influenced by public necessity.

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.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

I think polling is important because it gives a voice to the people. It gives a quantitative, independent assessment of what the public feels as opposed to what experts or pundits think the public feels. So often it provides a quick corrective on what's thought to be the conventional wisdom about public opinion. There are any number of examples that I could give you about how wrong the experts are here in Washington, in New York and elsewhere about public opinion that are revealed by public opinion polls.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.

What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.