How Kitsch are you? 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.How can we arrive at an aesthetic standard?By a gradual process of improvement developed out of empiricism.The work of the innate Genius is exemplary and sets the standard.The most gripping representation of the Holocaust is possible by—Showing the tragic events as they actually happened.Showing them in a dramatized form.You and a friend stare at a landscape — is his view different from yours?Unless your friend’s got eye problems you will experience the same outlook.Neither can reach the true landscape behind your minds’ representation.Should a work be decorated?Scene-paintings in a play can be emotionally attractive.Decoration will hinder the real beauty of the play itself.Should you reflect your cultural background?Yes, inherited knowledge must be carried on through tradition.No. Extract the most substantial from any tradition.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.What should be approached?An imitation of nature.Something as genuine as nature itself.Do you agree with the claim that Disney was the most dangerous man in America?Yes, fiction stories should “let you down” gently since hope creates bitterness.No. Romanticized fiction confirms your life and helps you imagine your future goals.Is a great work made with joy?Emotional state will not inflict the result.Things are better achieved with pleasure.Any comments about the questionnaire? Your profession