Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
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.
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.