If all goes well today, I would like to help some of you heighten your ability to look at the present and future environment through more open eyes of love.
Artistic expression means many things for the artist.
Of this, I care nothing today. It helps order the chaos of objective reality by simplifying and evaluating the world our senses perceive. This is my first point, which I mention not in order to develop a complete esthetic theory for you, but rather to help orient you to the arguments that follow. For if art has as one of its functions that of relating man to his environment, I will be inquiring whether our current strongly anti-technological and backwardly pastoral esthetic preferences which underlie the substance of so much of our formal and informal art education are not actually performing a profound disservice for us. Art, in this sense then, should illuminate man's present environment, and help prepare him for his future.