The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.
The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.