Caravaggio - documentary by Robert Hughes (1975) 5 of 7
Robert Hughes from a 1997 interview:
One of the advantages of having so many competing media is that it leaves painting for people who are actually nuts enough to really want to do that. At the same time, because there are so many other media, they attract so much genuine talent, as well they might, maybe it is just that initial impact of the attractiveness of the other media that has caused a bit of a dip in the talent available to traditional media. I just don't know.
I'm not much of a Net browser, but what always strikes me when I look around is the poverty of information, in areas that I am interested in, on the Net. There is a tremendous amount of zany conspiracy theory stuff, but not much else. So, I don't know. As more and more people use the Net and use such media, the intelligence quotient of it will rise. But it is hard to know. At present, people constantly ask me, "What about interactive video art, etc." I just don't know. I'm a print asshole. I'm a paint boy.
