In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Expressionism or Minimalism is, but you aren't given the chance to appreciate the mind of an artist.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
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.
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.
We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.