"Art is everything that you don't have to do"
"There are certain things you do have to do to stay alive. You
have to eat, for example. But you don’t have to invent Baked Alaska or sausage rolls or Heston
Blumenthal."
"You have to wear clothes. But you
don’t have to come up with Dior dresses or Doc Marten boots or Chanel little black frock."
Brian Eno described art in such a way that I would never have thought of putting it. He talks about art as stylisation of things such as the way we dress, the way we style our haircuts etc, they aren't random they're stylised. His overall main point is that we can survive without a lot of things that we do or use in everyday life, and that these things come under his broad definition of art.
He makes a point also about how art is very much different to other subjects such as science and maths, as to a certain extent, no matter who you ask, these subjects do only a range of things. Whereas art can be described in many different ways by different people, for example my answer to what art does could and probably would be entirely different to the next person's.
"When you go into a gallery, you might see a most shocking picture. But actually you can leave
the gallery. When you listen to a terrifying radio play you can switch the radio off. So one of the
things about art is it offers a safe place for you to have quite extreme and rather dangerous feelings"
This quote, I think, supports the idea of art being so much different to regular academic subjects in the sense that it's possibilities are endless as far as combinations of what mediums you use to portray you ideas, no matter how bizarre or ridiculous they are, onto paper.
"We need to be thinking
about art and culture not as a little add on, a bit of luxury, but as the central thing that we do."
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