One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.
We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.