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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith read more
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.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become read more
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential read more
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt read more
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but read more
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
