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| 12:50 PM, Saturday, July 05, 2003 |
Art was not merely the creation of beauty, for him; neither was it merely a reflection of reality. It was not even the depiction of truth.
Art was the creation of truth.
It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it can show this proverbial hammer how everything looks to a screwdriver - and to a plowshare, and to an earthenware pot. If reality is the sum of our perceptions, to acquire more varying points of view is to acquire, literally, more reality.
-David
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