“WHAT IS ART? HORIZONS OF THE CREATOR AND THE RECIPIENT”
“WHAT IS ART? HORIZONS OF THE CREATOR AND THE RECIPIENT”

Summary/Abstract: I recall a quiet evening twenty-or-so years ago; the teenager I was back then was mesmerized by the piercing blue eyes of a young Don Quixote whispering through his lips a heart-felt monologue: “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” That voice, that intonation, that humanity which struck with so much power with every consonant stuck to my memory. I too, as a Quixote, infuriated by platitude, stereotypes, ignorance, hypocrisy, bored with canons and small thoughts formulated in such a way as to resemble greatness, ashamed of my own superficial — at times narrow — views, burst into the same adapted soliloquy: The maddest of all — to ask what art is and not what it should be.

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