what is art?
“I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.”
― Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)
sari added 7d ago
- almost everything mimics or remixes what already existed in culture (or what already exists on the internet). All those famous names of artists and writers you know were not constantly making original choices filled with divine inspiration denied to AI. Much like how Roger Federer won only 54% of points across all the professional matches he played... See more
from Sorry Ted Chiang, humans aren't very original either
sari added 1mo ago
on AI art
- The more choices someone makes in a work’s creation, the more likely it is to be viewed as making art.
from Art Without Intention by Lincoln Michel
sari added 2mo ago
“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 moresari added 4mo ago
“At the same time, art cannot be understood in terms of purpose. As the sculptor Charles Ray has said, art is “for absolutely nothing.” To make, or experience, art is to enter a kind of free zone; it slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need
... See morealex added 5mo ago
“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”
sari added 6mo ago
- Casey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing
from Casey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing by U-M Stamps School of Art & Design
sari added 7mo ago
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