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Anonymous
/copypasta 'Art is anything that takes a significant skill and insight to create, and which carries within its medium the means to express this skill in a way interpretable to an observer, thereby conveying it as emotion or insight. Art does not need to be understandable by -everyone-. Not everyone will be able to see the structure, or derive the essential meaning, of a work of art. However, anyone or anything of sufficient intelligence will be able to interpret it as art, and appreciate it on some level. Real art has criteria. It is an expression of emotion, skill and thought in combination, and can not do without either of them. Art that is emotional and skilled but lacks thought is doodling and uninspired. Art that is skilled and thoughtful but lacks emotion is dispassionate and empty. Art that is emotional and thoughtful but lacks skill is shoddy and without definition and refinement. Real art is art. It is an expression, a thing in itself, that is -felt-. It is not everything that is thought-provoking or colorful or intriguing. -It- should be all of those things, but not all of those things are -it-. -Real- art has criteria, that even if hard to define are still -palpable-, and thus somewhat evident even to the unschooled. And you know what? All this post-Dadaistic shit, this 'modern art', with aluminium sculptures shaped like phallic screwdrivers, pig fetuses, color inversions of celebrity photos, random word poetry, music made up of obnoxious industrial noise or words written on toilet seats? It's shit. Utter -shit-. Because everyone can -feel- that it's shit. It's just that some pretentious, egotistic motherfuckers get their jollies by saying otherwise.'
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