ThatsWhatHeSaid
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What is art?
I don't think art can be defined by looking at a product. One guys puts up a urinal, calls it artwork, and undergrads debate about it for years. What's the point? Lame. If you've ever constructed art, you may have noticed that art follows from a state of mind (the "artistic mind"). That mind produces observable, sometimes tangible things that we collectively call art (even though artistic-byproducts might be a better label). Give an artist a paintbrush and he'll paint you a picture; a voice and he'll sing; legs and he'll dance.
Describing this state of mind is difficult and probably impossible to someone who hasn't experienced it before. When I occasionally feel it, it feel like calmness. There is a sense of gracefulness, almost as if everything around you is effortlessly and beautifully unfolding and just waiting to mingle with you. There's a sense of nostalgia or familiarity, of flowing, of reflection, and of self-acceptance. In the end, I think it's a letting go of one's own success and failures by accepting, by forgetting, by whatever.
Thoughts appreciated.