It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.