Renoir: "Today people want to explain everything. But if you can explain the picture, so it is not art. What two qualities, in my opinion, distinguish the work of art? Its impossible to describe or repeat ... ".
Art - this is not charade. Maybe someone intelligent and interesting to solve puzzles and search for hidden meaning, but art is not designed to do this. The artist is not interested. But the buyer - is another matter. Everyone wants to know why he rolled his personal money.
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Paul Valéry: "Literature has become all-powerful and has the right to create and destroy reputations. Evaluation of paintings (at a time) depends on the talent of a writer who praises to the skies, or destroy it. There is not a formless things a colored nonsense and random distortions to which descriptions and explanations, it was impossible to draw the attention of the public and even to make her admire, based on the propensity of people to feedback (a fact proven twenty times in the 19 century), under which the product, misunderstood and derided at first, classifies and then to the masterpieces, and its initial price increases a thousand times.
Thus, the painting was an unfortunate victim of a rapid and powerful policy tools and the Exchange.
We have acquired the habit of amusing take a mediocre artist, if at the beginning of his work, he was not shocked by the public and not suffered from it enough insults and ridicule.
Togo, who have not shocking, and not have to shrug their shoulders, we simply do not notice. It concluded that the need to shock, and many devote their time and effort.
A good study of contemporary art would have to show how over the past 50 or 75 years, every five years, found a new solution to the problem of shock.
I see all this dangerous superficiality, and I find that the concept of art is less and less connected with the concept of the fullest development of a specific individual, and consequently, other personalities.
Degas the writer says: "Leave me alone! You have come to count shirts in my wardrobe? "-" No, monsieur, for the sake of your art, I try to tell about it ".-" My art! What are you going to tell? You are able to explain the picture of dignity to those who had never seen her? A? I can find the most faithful, most accurate words to explain what I want. I talked about art with the wisest men, and they do not understand! ... Those who understand the words are not needed. You say, "Hmm ..." or "O" - and this says it all. That is my opinion ... I think literature only hinders artists. You infects the artist's vanity, you are instilling in him a love for vanity, and it is - everything. You are not in the least to improve the public taste ... Despite your writing, it has never been so low as now. Is it not? You do not even help us sell our paintings. A man buys a painting, not because I read an article in the newspaper, but because his friend, who, in his opinion, something understood in the art would say that this movie in ten years will cost twice as much now ... .
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