"The average taxpayer is not a big voluntary supporter of the arts. ... If you left it up to the public ... there would be no big art, such as the modernistic sculptures that infest many public parks. You almost never hear members of the public saying, "Hey! Let's all voluntarily chip in and pay a sculptor upwards of $100,000 to fill this park with what appears to be the rusted remains of a helecopter crash!"
DAVE BARRY, pages 116 & 117, from his 1991 book DAVE BARRY TALKS BACK, paperback edition