Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.
One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.
Art is for everybody.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.
For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that is at odds with my feeling that art should aspire to do great things.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.