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My name is Sidewalk Sam.
I have been asked by hundreds of festivals and fairs to bring an art component.
I've been doing that for more than forty years. 0:00:22.000,0:00:25.650
Sidewalks are beautiful.
These are the surfaces that propel society forward.
I can remember when I was a copyist at the Muse de Lieu in Paris.
This shouldn't be such a specialized effort, as removed from daily life.
It ought to be done at the feet of people.
And then went and did the Mona Lisa.
"I guess wanted to do art that was down to earth.
I like art that's out in the open, off of a pedestal,
out of museums and into the street."
The creation of art on the sidewalk is so casual it allows you to do anything.
We cannot keep going back to these 19th century formulas or getting paid for art.
I'd write off a letter to the head of a company
and you'd write off 25 letters.
You'd hear back from one guy who was really excited and we'd do some art together.
The bulk of us, unpaid and poorly paid.
I think that's okay.
We are excited about what we're allowed to do as human beings.
Some of the galleries on Newbury St. will have ten people, 15 people a day go in.
I would do art on the sidewalk and I would have six thousand, 13 thousand people.
Sidewalk art isn't meant to last for a long time.
The way that one reacts to a moment,
that seems to be the thing about art that is divine.