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The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.