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.
An artist has a primal emotion that becomes an original insight that births a work of art. Viewers tap that source code via viewing, as if the feeling that led to the original insight gets broadcast, and people with the right kind of radio can detect the signal. Tune the frequency correctly and the experience is shared experience, transmitted throu
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Art is about comedy, about fun, about tragedy, about emotions.
“Art is an institution to which we turn when we want to feel a shock of surprise. We feel this want because we sense that it is good for us once in a while to receive a healthy jolt. Otherwise we would so easily get stuck in a rut and could no longer adapt to the new demands that life is apt to make on us. The biological function of art, in other w
... See moreAn art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space.
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good. Touched by a masterpiece, a person begins to hear in himself that same call of truth which prompted the ar
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