More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.
The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.
We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.