Why art?

 I compose the unutterable - that which cannot be said, only composed. Every serious composer writes down the unutterable, which is the only artistic goal worth pursuing, for every art form. But most contemporary art of the last 70 years (that is, what was presented through the establishments) is perfectly happy with the utterable: what you see, read, hear, is what you get. It is a form of instant gratification, be it a happy one, a neutral one or a boring one. But the unutterable opens doors.

Good art refers to the background against which the work obtains its meaning which is not in the foreground, and not in the used materials. All good art happens in its psychology. But this psychology is innate in the work itself, and not in its surroundings or explanations or worldly context; it has its own context built into its own structure so that it tells its own meaning, without crutches.

This thought is related to a thought of British / Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittenstein:

'Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, ed. by Georg Henrik von Wright, rev. ed. (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998), p.16.