(…) But in the case of art and artists (who create artworks—and not subject matters—for a unspecified and unrestricted community) this is pure crime: these people demand of art to be comprehensible to the masses, and also claim that: “We are not saying that the artist should descend to the level of the masses, he should progress, yet in a way that he would, at the same time, elevate the level of understanding of the masses!” This would actually be a contradiction in terms to move alongside the masses progressing in art, or else, whatever is created and is not comprehensible to the masses should not be considered art! Since, due to a “necessary principle,” because Cubism is not pleasant to the narrow-thinking and uncultivated masses, it is of no value! (But, if those who have established this “necessary principle” found it appropriate and limited not and alienated not the poor masses from progressive art, the masses would surely have understood properly and it would have been pleasant to their taste as well. For, the spirit exhibited by Cubism through its structuring and powerful colourful backgrounds is exactly the representative of those militant powers which the masses require.) But since Cubism, Abstraction and Surrealism are vague and incomprehensible and contain abstract thinking, they are considered pervert and decadent art forms! Only a kind of limited and compromised realism of a century ago is considered, based on a “necessary principle,” acceptable and artistic, because such realism is comprehensible, logical and manipulative in its ‘subject matter’. How strange! With the appearance of this “necessary principle,” one should say that regression and decadence is offered to artists. This is why at this point an avant-garde presses the cotton more deeply into his ears and does not, as usual, pay attention to their sayings. For, he knows that the artist should not become a toy in the hands of a bunch of pretending art connoisseurs (!) or pseudo-connoisseurs or anyone else. To an avant-garde, abstraction and generalization are but the same phenomenon. For he knows that such terms coined by pseudo-philosophers is nothing but hot air. Because art is what emerges through the artist from contradictions and colliding currents of each period. And in any case, it is connected to the ideology of the time and is not controllable and it should not be. From: Painting, Jalil Ziapour, Khorous Jangi, first period, issue # 4, P. 16-17, 1949-50, Source: Pages’ archive