Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
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.
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.
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
Art has to be reflective of our society.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.