As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am an artist and a political being as well.
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
I'm one of the strongest advocates for the arts you'll ever find!
I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.