Wednesday, March 4, 2009

What is art?

I heard an awesome quote on what art is, I know we were having this conversation and I thought that this was pretty good.
"Art is something that exists only for itself, it has no other useful purpose"

Now I'm not saying that art isn't useful but I think this quote makes a lot of sense. Art is made just to be art; to entertain, dazzle, whatever but not necessarily a practical reason.

3 comments:

  1. Of course thinking more about this I think about what is the purpose of people? What is our reason for existence? Is it no real purpose? If so, we are art.

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  2. wow. and if our purpose is to dazzle, entertain, and whatever...well that is pretty good. Can I just add that I hope somewhere in there -- and perhaps inherent in dazzling and entertaining -- is that art is about communicating, that somehow art is about connections -- between people and people and things and people and all the feelings and sensations that are in people and people.

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  3. I think that's a good addition, yeah.

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