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I once read a pretty great text on what is art, seen from an anthropological viewpoint...I'll try and find it and link it here. But basically it explained that Art, is when you create something with that sole purpose, to BE art, to be an object of "spiritual" value. Ok many argue that to be art it has to be recognized as such by others, otherwise it's just some self-indulgent whimsy. I disagree with that.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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