All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
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.
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.