Art & Public Spaces in Our Lives
Doing some work-related research, I came across two quotes about the role of public art and museums in our lives:
The only reason for bringing together works of art in a public place is that … they produce in us a kind of exalted happiness. For a moment there is a clearing in the jungle, we pass on refreshed, with our capacity for life increased and with some memory of the sky. — Kenneth Clark
It is the judicious exercise of the museum’s authority that makes possible that state of pure reverie tha an unencumbered aesthetic experience can inspire.” — Phillipe De Montebello