It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
Art is a sense of magic.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.