I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.
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 not a thing; it is a way.
Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
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.