The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile.
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
I sincerely want to help create beauty in the world and move a culture of separateness back towards community. I really, really do, and I think art is a powerful way of doing that.
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
