Art is not merely pleasant or interesting. It has an importance that goes to the very core of the cosmology.

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• Art is not a trivial or interesting practice but something utterly fundamental to our human existence and to the nature of things as they areclaim0.838
  Stakes a strong normative claim about the role of art in light of the person-stuff thesis
• Tacit Assumption 6: Art is an intense social phenomenon but has no deep importance in the physical scheme of things.claim0.815
  Sixth assumption denying art a fundamental role in the structure of the universe.
• The artist should not express his feelings into the work; instead the work should generate feeling in the observer.claim0.770
• Conceptual art is the very last thing which can attain life, because it directly contradicts the rule of unfolding.claim0.767
• Inner light in a great painting touches to the heart of existence, to the core of what the universe is, not merely a cognitive zap.claim0.765
  Alexander's claim about the profound nature of aesthetic experience, contrasting with mechanistic dismissal.
• The art of making something living is sought again and again, avidly — it is like food.claim0.765
• The building as a whole is virtually pure art.claim0.764
  Claim that the pattern of solid and void, the creation of centers, is pure art, not a mixture of practical and art.
• The great works of traditional art were most often created in a context where the maker was trying to become one with God or lose themselves in the ground.claim0.762
  A summary of the reported intentions of historical craftsmen.