How are art and community--or art and the public--related?

Fortunately art is a community effort—a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
—Allen Ginsberg, American poet

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
—Henry Geldzahler, art critic

Creativity not committed to public purpose is merely therapy or ego satisfaction.
—Ernest A. Jones, advertising executive