WHAT IS ART TODAY?
“Let everything be called art. But if so, it is more necessary than ever, in a time when to mention beauty has become a gaucherie, to decide that one work but not another has authority; that this one but not that one expands the senses or compels the imagination. The gallerygoer cannot stop the tastemaker from talking. But he can stop listening quite so docilely. Ultimately, art can be of value to him or to posterity only if it somehow enhances his own awareness of the world—by sight, touch or emotion—but it has to be his own decision. He has a duty to look long, learn and then judge, to like or not to like. He may make hideous mistakes. That is his risk—too few people take it—and better than abdicating personal reaction in favor of fashionable theory.”
Thank you, arsvitaest.
I love this quote at the top of the article as well:
“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth and the galaxy of the stars, but that in this prison we can fashion images of ourselves sufficiently powerful to deny our nothingness”
—André Malraux
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On the contrary, it’s been like that since the Renaissance.
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