Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
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.
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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.
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.