Reprinted from the CD-ROm edition cited below

Modern Art

I have no theories about art. I just enjoy it. But I keep my eyes open.
When I was in grammar school the latest art movement was Cubism. That was the beginning of the disappearance of the subject in painting. In Mondrian and Malevich the subject disappeared completely. Then, when Duchamp exhibited a bottle-rack, a snow shovel, a urinal, all ready-made objects, the painting itself disappeared. After the Second World War the artists abandoned the object altogether and turned to a form of theatre in which the artist himself becomes his own artifact. Today the avant-garde have stopped using their bodies and have created a purely conceptual art, in which their thought is the artifact.
I have seen a time when the artist made something, a time when the artist chose something, a time when the artist did something, and a time when the artist thought something. Only one thing remains: for the artist to be something.