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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

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 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.

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 such an important part of our culture.

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.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Art is the proper task of life.

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.