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What is art? This is a question I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. Why is important, and why do we care? I’m not a pessimist, like Rousseau: he talks about societies that develop the arts and sciences leads to corruption and moral degradation; when we can really just survive on the bare necessities, right?
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Why do we feel the urge to express? To find ways to communicate ideas? Why don’t we run out of things to say And what about ways to say them? Who said that art has to be a certain way? Why do you care so much? Why not just not care?
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The context on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the famous Discourse on the Arts and Sciences: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/sites/default/files/2023-03/arts.pdf
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the more I think about it, the more I come back to the thought: not everything could be verbalized. And art in its essence is a form of communication through emotions rather than cognition As F.Schiller believed that through art individuals elevate themselves morally and intellectually, I tend to agree with that.
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Tolstoy argues that the proper purpose of art is to transmit feelings of human unity and “to set up, in place of the existing reign of force, that kingdom of God, i.e. of love, which we all recognize to be the highest aim of human life.” https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leo-tolstoy/what-is-art/aylmer-maude
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"l'art est ce qui rend la vie plus intéressante que l'art" – robert fillou translated as "art is what makes life more interesting than art." i think of art as play, which all animals do. it's the part of life that makes life enjoyable and meaningful. obviously, there can be excesses which lead to rousseau's ideas
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if i tried to answer on the spot- art invokes a feeling otherwise only grasped through experience
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I think it’s important because what we call the human experience is not ever fully defined or finite. And the only way to explore our ongoing evolutions and changes and altered states is by pushing our intellectual and physical stimuli. Art does that in a way nothing else can. And so we don’t stagnate.
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why we care? its pretty :)
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In this context we could say that art is the greatest way to cultivate our inner being, and also, by far, the richest form of communication. As it has been existing since the dawn of humanity, this inner culture must be essential to our lives, and for building civilizations…
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I think of art as a verb for expressing something from the soul. The person doing the act decides if it’s art or not by deciding if it’s coming from their soul. Hmm but what if they don’t think it's from the soul but someone else feels it in their soul. It would be art to person #2. Communicating with the soul
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