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> Good art doesn't tell people –what– to think, it gives them a provocation –to– think.

YES. And to feeeeel. It's the opposing force to the cultural forces that try to put everything in a line, knock out the problems one by one, simplify, prioritize, increase productivity. Art complexifies, injects ambiguity, blurs lines, points to the whole rather than the parts, connects rather than completes, opens rather than closes.

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A couple of places I’ve landed when I think about the creative process and the resultant art.

First: Good art (using your definition) starts with play.

Second: creating art is like having sex. The question is, are you pleasuring yourself or attempting to pleasure the other? I believe that good art comes from an artist focused on the latter.

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Wow love this essay and line in particular

"Good art doesn't tell people –what– to think, it gives them a provocation –to– think."

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