when we stopped making art, .A Human Strategy, aphorism 393

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We take art to be something alien to our nature, something above science, something that resists the laws of mechanics or is at least destroyed by them.  We think that there is a fundamental difference between the art and the artificial.  But there was an age that thought differently.  There was a time when the word, “art,” was a blood relative to the word “artificial.”  The confusion began when we stopped making art.  Now, our modern artists, make ideas.  The work of art, they would have us believe, is incidental to the philosophy that sells it.



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