art

It’s never hard to know if a painting is real art, because if you never tire of looking at it, then it’s art.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Art is just money on walls.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “The function of the artist is to make people like life better than before.”

Asked whether he’d ever seen this done, he said, “Yes, the Beatles did it.”

(From Dan Wakefield’s introduction to Vonnegut’s If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?, 2013.)

It’s easy to know if something is art. If you can’t tire of looking at it, then it’s art.

Art is compressed communication.