The essence of Modernism lies, as I see it, in the use of characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself, not in order to subvert it but in order to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence.
I don't get into "becauses." When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say "because" you get into art jargon.
You do most of your talking about the works and try to say why you think Every artist is a law to himself. There's no method.
The trouble with Michelangelo's sculpture is that it's too slick. He was damned good, but he was too arty.
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye..
When you're young and you maybe can't see art, you're interested in the story.
We have differences but we're not made different. If you don't agree with me, you're wrong.
In visual arts, prodigies don't count. In music and literature, yes, but not in art.
As a kid I drew and drew obsessively. I went to museums, but I wanted the story. I couldn't see the art.