Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.
When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.
When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.
I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.
The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.
