I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.
I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.
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.
One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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