The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art but by no means all seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock a flower the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two it's bad art.
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue but I've done many.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem with each painting being a single stanza.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
My painting does not come from the easel.
I have no fear of making changes destroying the image etc. because the painting has a life of its own.
When I judge art I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes it is not art.
With all the hybrid stuff and things like that I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.