Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
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Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
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.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
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