Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
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.
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
Art has to be reflective of our society.
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.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.