Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
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