Art Interaction Quotes

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.

Some art needs to be hung on the wall and stared at inquisitively, while other pieces require a more active approach.

Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes.

It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.