Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
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 don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.