Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
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'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Can works be made which are not 'of art'?
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.