Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

No art goes unmediated by other art.