why we make art
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- in science and philosophy we chase after a slightly different kind of accuracy but I think it’s fundamentally the same thing: they’re all attempts to grapple with the world, to capture it, to share it with others. the most distinctively human impulse is the impulse to consume and create culture. I know it sounds abstract but I really do think this is why I read textbooks and write poems and doodle on index cards. it is an act of love. I want to capture what I see and feel—the beauty of it, the joy of it, but also the pain and the sadness of it—and I want to share that with you, I want you to experience what I’m experiencing. I want to bottle up the world and give it to you to keep. (View Highlight)
why we make art
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- in science and philosophy we chase after a slightly different kind of accuracy but I think it’s fundamentally the same thing: they’re all attempts to grapple with the world, to capture it, to share it with others. the most distinctively human impulse is the impulse to consume and create culture. I know it sounds abstract but I really do think this is why I read textbooks and write poems and doodle on index cards. it is an act of love. I want to capture what I see and feel—the beauty of it, the joy of it, but also the pain and the sadness of it—and I want to share that with you, I want you to experience what I’m experiencing. I want to bottle up the world and give it to you to keep. (View Highlight)