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the pinnacle of Brodovitch's career as a designer was the unfailing elegance of his pages. This elegance, combined with an element of innovation was the ideal mix for a fashion magazine. The quality that guaranteed his success was his devotion to the new, unending surprise and vitality
Kerry William Purcell • Alexey Brodovitch
The WIRED analysis also demonstrates that despite claims that Perplexity’s tools provide “instant, reliable answers to any question with complete sources and citations included,” doing away with the need to “click on different links,” its chatbot, which is capable of accurately summarizing journalistic work with appropriate credit, is also prone to
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Picasso remarking that “when art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” Taste rests on turpentine.
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Quality isn't merely a standard—it's a practice requiring calmness, focus, and a discerning approach, shielded from the distractions of a hurried world.
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Trust, from being granted upon creation, is now an essential premium for creative work. Technique made some form of “art” possible through the feat of technique. The trusted eye doesn’t juges how the “art” was made, but reveal important dimensions, crediting all actors involved in the production of art.
Phones and social media encourage fast-food art. Not the fine-dining of wandering a museum
Noah Bradley • Art Is Dead: Mediocre Essays on How to Make Good Art and Not Be a Bad Artist
2.6.3 True artists produce works that are novel, complex, and ambiguous.
2.6.4 Novel, complex, and ambiguous artworks can always be simplified to make conventional art forms more stimulating for mainstream audiences.
2.6.4 Novel, complex, and ambiguous artworks can always be simplified to make conventional art forms more stimulating for mainstream audiences.