/lit/ - Literature

pic related is not art. art is manual labor. almost a blue collar job. if you call yourself and artist but you're not physically and mentally exhausted at the end of every day you aren't a real artist.

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But money is in itself a means to an end, the problem is not just a pursuit of money but rather where we direct that money to, give your average man a million bucks and he’ll immediately buy himself a car. Consequently cars have become exceedingly powerful machines. Were aesthetics for their own sake valued then capital would naturally flow to their production. The issue then is who or what forces have directed our cultural values. The problem is paradoxically art itself, art is a self destroying beast because art exploits mans natural laziness and the appeal of simulation. Eventually the artist becomes a work of art in itself, or rather an image, and we value not the art itself but the qualities we associate with artsiness. This is why so many modern artists are preoccupied with self image. Ultimately all our interactions are mediated by images of images of images of images etc. All art is a deviation from true beauty because true beauty cannot be replicated, it repeats recursively until it becomes incomprehensible nonsense like pic related.