"If you can say it... Why paint it?" A review of the key concepts of Contemporary Art

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Oscar Wilde

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Marcel Duchamp

"L'art c'est ce qui rends la vie plus interessante que l'art"(Art is what makes life more interesting than art)Robert Filiou, (1926-1987)