Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.
You really can't bring about anything new with art.
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.