We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitati...
I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of ref...
You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science.
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
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.
Our sisters and brothers were picked up in public by local commanders for the purpose of sex and luxury and we could do nothing.
Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.
virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.
Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library.
Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?" she laughs. "Impressive.
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure payout and a line of tacky lingerie in the works
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
Your private self must become the same as your public self.
