Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
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 a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
Art has to be reflective of our society.
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.
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.