"Any worthwhile art is never optional," he said.
It panders to a cosy lie, that everyone is equally able to create worthwhile art.
Provocation isn't the first aim of Creed's art - nor, I'd suggest, of much worthwhile art today.
We think it will get you to most of the worthwhile art on the Web quicker and easier than anything else out there.
Nabokov wrote of the game: "Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterise all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity and splendid insincerity".
The reality of risk-taking in the arts is that it is a constant process, regularly monitored, consciously undertaken, carefully balanced, because without risk-taking there is no worthwhile art.
If information pirates like Ian Clarke are allowed to have their way and destroy the copyright system (front page, May 10), what they will be left with is a new world bereft of any worthwhile art.
A letter on May 15 makes the very best argument that can be made against the copyright law when it summons the prospect of a "new world bereft of any worthwhile art" thanks to the artist's inability "to recover the costs of producing art".
To feature demanding new work at such an iconic event as the Last Night of the Proms, where the music's central function is arguably to foster or reinforce a tribal and cultural identity, could be seen as either folly or a courageous attempt to promote serious and worthwhile Art, or indeed both those things.
Here's how the narrator puts it: "Compare the Venice of the late renaissance … to the Berlin of Weimar … to whatever city would turn out to be most fashionable in 2012, and you would find the same empty people going to the same empty parties and making the same empty comments about the same empty efforts, with just a few spasms of worthwhile art going on at the naked extremities.
