As a follow-up to the previous post about Georgia O’Keefe’s work being dismissed for being “pretty”, here is author Willa Cather, whose sentiments regarding art were remarkably similar … namely that the feeling evoked by a creative endeavor – painting, poetry…etc – is more relevant than any intellectual explanation of why it satisfies the definition of “art.”
Art is a matter of enjoyment through the five senses. Unless you can see the beauty all around you everywhere, and enjoy it, you can never comprehend art.
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