If the public feels that by encouraging feminist art it participates in something important for humanity, funding it won’t be a problem.
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On artists, exhibitions and art trends.
Art is always political. It exists within a context and uses elements that have a historical, political and social dimension.
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Most artists through history have produced art that has been homogenous, conformist and compliant.
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The arts world is a reflection of its surroundings. Academics and artists have internalised the needs of the system that they live in.
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It is essential for people to distinguish between the insignificant and the essential. But in the current context it is very difficult to discriminate.
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My favourite metaphor is the stew. With age I am learning that fewer ingredients of better quality are the best base. And that the art is in the method.
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Our advanced capitalist market economy is based on the relationship between supply and demand and on specialised production of goods and knowledge.
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In Plato’s and Aristotle’s time, art had a social function. Today we are used to art for art’s sake.
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It has to be possible to distinguish between what is art and what is not for any theory of art to exist.
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Sometimes the void of ignorance is better filled by the imagination than by knowledge.
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Art hides a truth that it can’t show, because it would betray its etimology, but that has to be there, because if it isn’t, it wouldn’t be art.
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Klee, who suffered the consequences of crisis, wars and nazi madness, kept being able to create subtlety.
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Without children there is no humanity. To say that something as important as the destiny of humanity is incompatible with art is absurd.
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While we waited for the tea we marvelled at the fact that time passes so slowly when the space is irritating.
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When I discover an artist that did decades ago what in my mind is barely the sketch of a possibility I suffer a kind of artistic-existential short circuit.
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In art, form always wins over content. If the content is protest content and the form is conventional, the piece is conventional.
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The ones that defined the former rules should not be allowed to define the new ones because we have already seen how badly they worked.
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Choosing what to copy and what not to copy, apart from being a tribute, is a selection process that says a lot.
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I believe is that for art to exist it has to be possible to differentiate what is art from what is not.
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