THE ARTIST AND THE REALITY ' "For a serious appreciation of contemporary art I (...) it seems necessary to bear in mind certain principles. And the first is this: that the world of culture as a whole and in its various aspects, is a living world of an organic complex life. His inner process is not in proper more or less, the reality of the pure ideal values, but in an endless and varied labor - to dissolve and reconstitute itself - the reality to insist upon the intimate in her spiritual problems that these values \u200b\u200brepresent abstract ideas like limits. Even as regards art, you must first get rid of everything else from preconception - (...) - the art world is to conceive, like a museum as a collection of separate works, each complete in itself, as a product of the genius of an artist on a technical standard gradually acquired, each mirroring itself, albeit in different ways and forms, the unique value of the beauty that has to appreciate the taste and critical discernment. No, the art world this is not the graduated series of models of perfection offered the pleasure of the idle or emotion of the beautiful souls. It is a living reality, in which the problem of artistic creation s'attua forms, directions, different directions, thwarted by a set of requirements which the balance varies continuously depending on not only the energies of life (...) but the prevalence of the various moments of the creation itself is (...). Every work of art that is so not because it expresses, in a special aspect of the abstract beauty of the unique value - that taste is determined only by the most absurd and grotesque contamination - but as part of that life ' There's art and its meaning and its function, and beyond the creative needs of the waves is flowed, it remains an absolute validity as an essential aspect of aesthetic transfiguration of reality. Only within such a life of art by the artist as an artist, that is, as creator: the miracle of genius is his own participation in the living needs, beyond any personal ambitions, free from all mood of the public, free of 'every scheme ideally abstract, its concrete anxiety problems. Out of this he is not an academic or job. And only within the life of art as essential moments of its constitution for development, sense, efficiency, reliability and fecundity spiritual contemplation the public and the opinion of the critic. Outside of it there is only pedantry and dilettantism. "(Antonio Banfi, Current , No. 4, February 28, 1939-XVII, p. 10)
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