I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
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.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
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