Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.
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.
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
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