(Some artists say): "Anyone who tries to make a political statement through art generally ends up with propaganda instead. No one who eats art for breakfast would dream of trying to make statements through their work. I am interested in mastering form, light, and colour."
(But South Africa has said): "Our people eat poverty for breakfast; we live in the light and color of political oppression; and our art cannot ignore that and remain true to our own realities. For us the real propaganda lies in the art that pushes an abstractly pure "form, light and colour" instead of our own experience. This is not our direction: it can only be pursued by denying the aesthetics of our own lives."
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