Art is an experience, not an object.
Interpretation
Art is about the feelings and experiences it evokes rather than the physical object itself.
This quote emphasizes that the essence of art lies in the emotional and personal experiences it creates for individuals, rather than focusing solely on the material aspects or the object itself. It suggests that art transcends mere objects and resides in the interaction and connection between the observer and the work, highlighting the subjective nature of artistic appreciation.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of emotional engagement in art therapy.
A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.
To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.
Literature is the most beautiful of countries
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
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