A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
The gallery is generating work for the masses.
Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.
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.
Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.