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“Artists almost anywhere in the world are living in almost the same culture.

But compared to the ancient cultures no great art is being produced today anywhere, and I am not hopeful of the future, unless artists stop going on ego trips, stop being perverted by dealers and the press, and stop producing potboilers, and playing to the public.”

— Alastair Martin, Guennol: Reflections on Collecting p. 107
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chowcollection 2y ago

I agree with this in the sense that the “culture” I grew up in seems to be inhospitable to great artists doing great things, and if everyone was like myself I would have no hope for the future of art. But thankfully the world is much more diverse than this!

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Leo Fernevak 2y ago

I think more in terms of 'interesting art'. For art to be interesting to me it has to strike a nerve and connect at some level. Connection is foundational and we connect with different things as individuals.

The architecture of Star Wars have an appealing greatness to it, yet it is not a greatness that we have access to yet on a civilizational level. Perhaps it must be built on some distant planet, since we already have an Earth full of historical civilizations. There is little space or political room for such a civilizational change. And I wouldn't want to live under a central planning system.