We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.
What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
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.