Ep275 - Nicholas Meyer | Star Trek and The Science of Optimism
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Art and Science - The Artist's Opinion
Artists lose all proprietary authority over their creations once they're finished. The artist's opinion, by that point is just another opinion people will make of works of art. Art and science too, for all i know, is much more interesting posing questions than answering them. Unlike oscar wilde, who maintained that all art is useless, leo tolstoy stated that the purpose of art is to teach us to love life,. No matter how beautiful or terrible what we depict. I think tol stoy is right. The bottom line, function of art isto infatuate us with life. The purpose of art. There's no visual aids answers may be few, but
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