what is art?
attempting to define
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what is art?
The more choices someone makes in a work’s creation, the more likely it is to be viewed as making art.
Lincoln Michel • Art Without Intention
“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)
-from Brandon Stanton, Humans of NY
“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 moreCasey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing
U-M Stamps School of Art & Design • Casey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing
Tolstoy, in What is Art?
... See moreEvery work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced, or is producing, the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression… Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea o
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
Sorry Ted Chiang, humans aren't very original either
on AI art
