The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed 'then' what do we do?
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
In art scandal is a false narrative a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing we overreact.
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show much of it revealing for its timeliness genius or sheer weirdness.
In Art man reveals himself and not his objects.
The writer when he is also an artist is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
First there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament but are clearly revealed a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father the male and the female sort of gradually having their marriage.
Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.