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Philosophy 37.

I said, "If you have to ask, you have the answer."
And then she said, "I want an exhibition in New York."
That was it. She had done three things and wanted an exhibition in New York. I think that point of view disgusted Marcel Duchamp. I think he saw what I really feel, that though I love art and love objects, it's really not important.

G: Then why do you spend your life doing it?

B: Well, we spend our life doing things. I got into it by accident and I'm in it. When I am in India I'm in that. When I'm in New York, inside museums, I'm in that. It just happens that I'm in pottery. I don't think art is as important as we make it out to be. Yet the world would be a terrible place if it didn't have beauty. There's duality everywhere. We can talk in circles about any subject. 

G: What would man have to redeem him from the terrible tragedies of life if he didn't have a sense for beauty?

B: I have wondered, from a deep philosophical point of view, what is it, this energy that forces us to create. Because if we didn't create we'd have a world of nothing but beautiful and flowers. Maybe that's not be enough? When I was in India, I noticed that the illiterate villagers were laughing together walking on the streets. They didn't have televisions