About Quote by Richard Eyre

The public has a right to art … Art is for everybody,

— Keith Haring

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

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

— Chaim Potok

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points…

— Henry Miller

Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it…

— James A. Baldwin

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to…

— Rockwell Kent

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…

— Thom Mayne

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

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

— Theodor Adorno

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is…

— Randall Jarrell

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it.…

— Tristan Tzara