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I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

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.

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 history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.