I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it's hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.