Accepted Quote by Thomas Sowell

If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will…

— Thomas Sowell

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax…

— Charlton Heston

Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is…

— Mike Huckabee

The average tax payer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. The only art that the average taxpayer buys voluntarily either has…

— Dave Barry

If people think of public art as something the public decides, it's impossible to make anything of substance.

— Robert Graham

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't…

— Teresita Fernandez

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that…

— Jim Rowe

Despite all the taxes people pay, there supposedly isn't any money in this country for art. Of course, this makes an artist ask himself:…

— Georg Baselitz

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

— Dave Hickey

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I wanted to show the community you can build something here without having to raid taxpayers' dollars. What better way to show the community…

— Norman Braman

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

— John Updike