In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.
I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
Any form of art is political if you make it that way.