Nobody is interested in the genuine art. Art turns into policy. Art does not elevate Man, one makes Man the accomplice of political game. Art became the concealed weapon of the mediocre politicians. Art does humanity no good already. Now an artist is not God's servant. He is devil's servant. The contemporary artist serves evil and his works will be his incrimination in Doomsday because he breached a principle of art: carry the beauty to people.
“ There are lonely artists. They do not find any response or recognition during their lifetime. Away from the generations of their time, from the rapidly arising and drifting away “requests”, “directions” and “currents”, they contemplate and create their own, lonely, appealing as if not even to people (“Accept! Delve into ! Heal and get wiser ! ”), but to God (“Receive my lonely prayer!”). They do not turn away from people, but people turn away from them: people look but do not see, listen but do not hear, or, in the words of Heraclitus, " absent being present”. I. Ilyin “The Lonely Artist”. - I was four years old when my older brother was given colored pencils. I took these pencils and said: "I won't give them back ." And a person dear to me, my mother's sister, said: "Don't touch him, he will be an artist." (V. M.) ValentinMassow was born in 1937, on the centenary of the death of A.S. Pushkin , in the family of a provincial doctor an...
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