The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The history of art is the history of revivals.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Art has to be reflective of our society.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.