In a sufficiently prosperous society where people specialize sufficiently, and where enough of the crappy work is done by machines, all work becomes art.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
To create a work of art is to create the world.
Art is the job of the privileged.
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
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.