"Also, man now realizes that he is an accident, that he is a completely futile being, that he has to play out the game without reason. I think that even when Velasquez was painting, even when Rembrandt was painting, they were still, whatever their attitude to life, slightly conditioned by certain types of religious possibilities, which man now, you could say, has had cancelled out for him.
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You see, painting has become, all art has become, a game by which man distracts himself. And you may say it has always been like that, but now it's entirely a game. What is fascinating is that's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to be any good at all, so that he can make life a bit more exciting..."
