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“Art is trying to remind you of what there is to love.”
“The first idea is that art should be for art’s sake - a ridiculous idea - an idea that art should live in a hermetic bubble and should not try to do anything with this troubled world. I couldn’t disagree more.
The other thing that we believe is that art shouldn’t explain itself, that artists shouldn’t say what they’re up to, because if they said it, it might destroy the spell and we might find it too easy. That’s why a very common feeling when you’re in a museum - let’s admit it - is, “I don’t know what this is about.” But if we’re serious people, we don’t admit to that. But that feeling of puzzlement is structural to contemporary art (…)
Art is about two things in all the major faiths. Firstly, it’s trying to remind you of what there is to love. And secondly, it’s trying to remind you of what there is to fear and to hate. And that’s what art is.”
