The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the crappy work is done by machines, all work becomes art.
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Art is the objectification of feeling.
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