You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
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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.
Buying art is not understanding art.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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.
Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.