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.
An art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space.
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
... See moreSteven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
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
... See moreArt is not an object, but a special kind of communication between an artist and an audience. It’s a communication for when words won’t do. For when you want to communicate something more interesting, nutritious, complex, or strange. But since high bandwidth telepathy doesn’t exist yet, a mediating object needs to be crafted to articulate this commu
... See moreIan Cheng • Emissary's Guide To Worlding
Emotion and the body are at the irreducible core of experience:
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
Similarly, people who spend much time with art come to appreciate increasingly the affective, historical, and cultural aspects of the work they are viewing, occasionally more than they enjoy its purely visual aspects. As one professional involved in the arts expressed it: “[Works of] art that I personally respond to…have behind them a lot of concep
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Art is about comedy, about fun, about tragedy, about emotions.