I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.