How Kitsch are you? Should Romeo and Juliet sentimentalize the audience?Pity and fear should be evoked just hearing the basic outline of the story.Tender emotions deprive us from the feeling of duty.Through your work — should you tell a story?Yes, in poetry, storytelling is primary.No, design, not content, is essential.Should the pupil distance himself from his master?Yes, a talented student should find his own style.No. Then there would be no use of a master.Does collaboration degrade the art of conducting?Great music is a realization of one creative vision.A well conducted piece can better the vision of its composer.Can you take pleasure in an abstract painting?The spontaneous expression is heartfelt and true to the instinct of the painter.Colors spread at random give less pleasure than a portrait sketched in black and white.Can a work of excellence be ascribed to a method?It's detached from all rules.Certain techniques work better than others.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 a movie contain the impossibility of a flying man?Only if it’s credibly depicted.No, we must be able to confront unromantic reality.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.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.Any comments about the questionnaire? Your profession