Sylvie
@sylvie
Sylvie
@sylvie
part of the point of sharing art is to give people something that cannot properly be valued.
Time spent thinking about art is time spent wondering what it really feels like to be you.
Yet artists have never lost their power to create transcendent things. Every society’s art that we can still access vibrates intensely through the human experience. We are still creating things that can fundamentally alter people’s lives, shake the core of their understanding, rewrite their entire personhood.
It’s tempting to think of art as outside of our practical needs: art does not hold up walls or keep us warm; it derives its value from our perceptions of it. It exists to prove we are capable of appreciating things beyond their practicality. We can see again how it is directly opposed to the inherent efficiency of money: if art were so crass as to
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