There's traditionally been a large disconnection in contemporary art between the audience and the artist. Generally, audiences are looking towards what they like, and I can tell you, that's the last thing on an artist's mind.
I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.
Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
I think any artist wants their artist to be seen and appreciated and enjoyed by as many people as possible.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
