A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.
My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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.
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.