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“A lot more is possible. But only if art is stripped of the false mystery and the false religiosity which surrounds it.” Discard the pretense of Western art worship. Reconnect with the bare bones of reality, and the ride it is to exist, that paintings remind us of. https://t.co/0QlD3P4ifq
Art does not have to be the toast of the bourgeoisie. It can be new again, fresh. Containers and conduits into a magical, electric way of being, that is tantra, always around us. https://t.co/FrT6g1VP3y
It is precisely when you let art be valuable in no more the sense than in which the green grass outside is valuable, that it becomes valuable. The magic was never in them, the magic was around us—hence they can be magical by prompting us. https://t.co/Hua7hCRkgT
The most important thing about paintings is that their images are silent, still. Contrast this with the noise they are used to make, deployed as arguments or points. https://t.co/hDhZs9ot2O
Their stillness is a profound one, that reaches out beyond the moment that sucks you into a profound kind of silence that makes it pointless to speak. Yet we may speak anyway, and this speaking in a manner that enhances soundlessness is called vibe. https://t.co/TAMFgeMeke
The most important part of a painting is that they are still and soundless. Sometimes, this silence can be very striking. “The experience of this has almost nothing to do with what anybody teaches about art.” https://t.co/CqnHjd0KhZ
“Images can be used like words—we can talk with them.” So paintings becomes from gestalts to words in a vocabulary. From the vocabulary itself, words to be be noticed in it, to an instrument deployed in a containing semantic thrust.
This is not so a bad process. “What so often inhibits such a spontaneous process is the false mystification which surrounds art.” What might become part of our language is jealously guarded and kept within the narrow preserves of the art expert.