If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous.
Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface.
If someone says it's art, it's art.
Design has to work. Art does not.
Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.