This is because a work of art is understood not by the mind only, but by the emotions and by the body itself.
from 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.
- the influence that we draw from existing work is not an analysis of pixels, but an emotional response to how that work makes us feel.
from The A.I. Lie by View Profile
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Art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.
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- To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling, this is the activity of Art.
from Speed and Efficiency are not Human Values by John Warner
Faith Hahn added
An art work is neither a physical thing nor a viewer’s mental image of it but something in between, created in attentive space.
Russell Bradbury-Carlin added
- suggests that the self and its relation to the world is not merely a mental phenomenon. It has a sensual, embodied, and material dimension, and changes, even subtle ones, to the texture our experience can have profound consequences.
from The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self by L. M. Sacasas
Keely Adler added
- Art can be an emotional trigger for larger and deeper dialogues. It can blur the boundaries between things, the boundaries between us and the boundaries between the world and self. Still we rarely see art and economy as subjects deeply unified in the same study or mechanism.
from economicspaces by Jenny Grettve
dane cads added
Art is what happens when a human feels feels a powerful emotion or experience and then translates it through an artistic medium to be felt and understood by another human
h/t to Justin Mather in the Substack comments
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