This is because a work of art is understood not by the mind only, but by the emotions and by the body itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Message about Messages
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This is because a work of art is understood not by the mind only, but by the emotions and by the body itself.
Art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.
Art is about comedy, about fun, about tragedy, about emotions.
Artworks don’t manage knowledge—they channel it. It takes time and attention to understand an artwork’s meaning. Each piece demands a process of reconciliation, and a merging of two contexts: the artwork’s own history and the viewer’s private knowledge network. When it’s placed in a new context, its meaning evolves and expands elastically. It store... See more
Willa Köerner • A Personal Philosophy of Shared Knowledge
An art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space.