“If you want to create a high-society, you must give high things to the public! Show the public eagle; public will be an eagle! Show the public a rat, public will be a rat! Whatever you give to the public, public will take that! To create a high-society, you must give high things to the public!”
“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
“Show me a filthy public restroom and I’ll show you a society where discipline and order have broken down.”
“Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.”
“Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ”
“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.”