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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.