He says in his letter that present students "haven't a clue as to what the arts mean and their importance to a civilization."

Trying to impose this or that way to the artist is the antithesis of what art means.

What do the arts mean for jobs and economies?

"I don't believe that to say you do black art means you're segregated," she said.

Q Isn't this what art means to do, to make people feel through it?

"You'd have to be living in a tree not to understand what the arts mean to New York," she said.

Meanwhile, there is a lot of talk about what the new art means.

For him, the arts meant doing theater in the provinces.

They offered very different takes on what political art could mean.

An art means it's something that everybody can't do.