"Nikolay: I think this is madness. That you need a doctorate to appreciate painting. I mean you don't need a diploma to appreciate music. (…)
Art is a common ground. And we all take a pause for a moment to appreciate something that connects us all. The beauty of being alive. This is art. Art that divide us is not art.
- That's very sentimental, Nikolay.
You say sentimental like it's a venereal decease. What's wrong with sentimental?
- It has no place in art.
Says who?
- Oh, come on! Sentiment is a sloppy sugary emotional form of gushing which is indicative of the lack of intellect.
You have so much intellect that you've become stupid, Curtis! Sentiment, it's to have decency, it's being human being, it's knowing that life is short, it's very very short! I know it at my age! This is the sentimental. I'm proud of it. It's what you have done with the art that I find so utterly disturbing…
To cry, to hurt, to ponder, to love.. really love something.. These are the building blocks of our humanity. It's what builds bridges. Great Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir…"
Dialogue of artist Nikolay Serov and a curator friend in the movie "Local Color"
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"Nikolay: I think this is madness. That you need a doctorate to appreciate painting. I mean you don't need a diploma to appreciate music. (…)
Art is a common ground. And we all take a pause for a moment to appreciate something that connects us all. The beauty of being alive. This is art. Art that divide us is not art.
- That's very sentimental, Nikolay.
You say sentimental like it's a venereal decease. What's wrong with sentimental?
- It has no place in art.
Says who?
- Oh, come on! Sentiment is a sloppy sugary emotional form of gushing which is indicative of the lack of intellect.
You have so much intellect that you've become stupid, Curtis! Sentiment, it's to have decency, it's being human being, it's knowing that life is short, it's very very short! I know it at my age! This is the sentimental. I'm proud of it. It's what you have done with the art that I find so utterly disturbing…
To cry, to hurt, to ponder, to love.. really love something.. These are the building blocks of our humanity. It's what builds bridges. Great Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir…"
Dialogue of artist Nikolay Serov and a curator friend in the movie "Local Color"