When the idea behind communicating inner experience is disposed of altogether and the ideas behind the work of art become more important than the work’s content, the notion of art disappears and the artist easily escapes artistic value judgment. The result is then, as we can see with so-called “concept art”, that only the maker’s intention is left, and there is no work of art at all, only objects in front of the viewer that need extensive “explanation” because they cannot speak for themselves to express something.

—John Borstlap, The Classical Revolution: Thoughts on New Music in the 21^st Century