Artists feared it would replace painting; it did in fact replace the itinerant portrait painter. “From this day painting is dead,” declared the painter Paul Delaroche in 1839 - painting’s highest aspiration being the faithful reproduction of the world. Well, painting still has a lot of life in it. But it is hard to comprehend [...]

“Art is not there to provide knowledge in direct ways. It produces deepened perceptions of experience. More must happen than simply logically understandable things. Art is not there to be simply understood, or we would have no need of art. It could then just be logical sentences in a form of a text for instance. [...]