Art Quote by Dave Barry

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want…

— Oscar Wilde

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very…

— Esperanza Spalding

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.

— Gian Carlo Menotti

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and…

— Oscar Wilde

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands…

— Antony Gormley

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question…

— Alain de Botton

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…

— Richard Eyre

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

— Oscar Wilde

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at…

— Matthew Collings

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

— Oscar Wilde

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside…

— Jerry Saltz

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to…

— Bill Watterson