How Kitsch are you? Let’s take The Prodigal Son by Rembrandt — what can you learn from it?It should teach us about moral ideas.Beauty is independent from education.Can you compose like Beethoven today?Successors should imitate his coffee habits, not his music.Develop and make use of the best from the traditional material.Is habitation the only function of architecture?Yes, form follows function, creating a building’s own beauty.No, ornamentation is crucial for man’s harmony with nature.A masterpiece cannot come out of improvisation — do you agree?On the contrary, it's the result of sudden inspiration and spontaneity.A masterpiece is the result of planning and persistence.Can a work of excellence be ascribed to a method?It's detached from all rules.Certain techniques work better than others.You add an extra element to a composition — should you keep it there?If that is what the composition demands.You decide based on introspection.What should be approached?An imitation of nature.Something as genuine as nature itself.A nude by Matisse or a nude by Zorn?Matisse – if it's too sensually rendered, it ceases to be valid.Zorn – great painters render the world more sensual than it is.How do you respond to the spinning wheel in The Spinners by Velasquez?Recognition of the spinning wheel pleases the viewer.Forget what you know about spinning wheels, and judge it as a loosely painted circle.A nude by Lucian Freud or a nude by Andrew Wyeth?Freud – an uncomplimentary approach to reality challenges the viewer.Wyeth – great painters depict their subjects with dignity.Any comments about the questionnaire? Your profession