Public Art Quotes

• It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

  Dave Barry

  Art, Experts, Spending

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.22, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Art, Crazy, Mean

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Progress

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• 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

  Sports, Country, Art

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, Desire

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• 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

  Art, Wall, Ideas

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I wouldnt be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

  Matthew Morrison

  Art, Today, Art Education

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• 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

  Art, Long, People

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• 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

  Art, Ideas, Space

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Presidential

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• 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

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Art, Support, Range

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• Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Art, Men, Doe

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.91, New Directions Publishing

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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

  Art, Thinking, Way

  "Jim Drain Wants to Make The Gap of Art". Interview with Ken Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or that hunting be promoted as an alternative lifestyle. It is not the National Rifle Association out lobbying to have government schools read books entitled 'Heather Has Two Hunters' to preschoolers. It is, in fact, the Left that now strives to use state power to impose its morality by forcing all taxpayers to pay for abortions and public "art" that mocks people of faith. It is the Left that forces parents to pay for government schools where they do not wish to send their children.

  Grover Norquist

  Art, Children, Book

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• I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, 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

  Art, Cake, Humanity

  International Herald Tribune, September 19, 2005.

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• 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

  Art, Rap, Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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