Mariana’s Reviews > Art as Therapy > Status Update

Industrial capitalism has made many cheap trinkets, but it has not produced many beautiful cities.

It is helpful to realize that feeling as though glamour is elsewhere has always been present, including in places where now, thanks to art, we have no problem identifying some value.

I know what really matters, and I know what doesn't. That, too, is love.

Like many designers of his era, he [Rietveld] was interested in mass production because of a feeling that the one-off masterwork could not sufficiently change reality, and that only if everyday objects were permeated with the correct values would human conduct change in the direction he wished for it [...].

The energies of those who love art shouldn't be devoted to piling up treasures behind high walls, but instead should be to spread the values found in works of art more widely through the world.

One can imagine a different range of products to sell in the world's gallery gift shops: objects that are aligned with the values and ideals of artists, rather than merely with their identities.