Quotes on Public Art

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

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.

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