In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back. Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso. All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
When I was their age, I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them. Visiting an exhibition of drawings by children. Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality. The trouble, Mr Goldwyn is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money. Irish dramatist and critic.