Re: "I sense that in the long run there is a greater value for humanity in empowering folks to make and create than there is in teaching them the canon, the great works and the masterpieces."

[joseph berg]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:31 AM, joseph berg <art...@gmail.com> wrote:

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>  On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:29 AM, William Conger 
> <w-con...@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
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>> I want to know why we -- as humans -- always perceive any sense data as
>> explainable, as representative of something just beyond the border of
>> consciousness, as it were.  Does consciousness create itself by
>> continually
>> engulfing what occurs as the explainable?  In visual art are we compelled
>> to
>> explain any imagery as representative of something else? And is this also
>> true
>> of the other senses, considered alone or together?
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> -The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor
> touched ... but are felt in the heart.
>
> Helen Keller
>

 - *Whereof we cannot make a theory, we must tell a story instead.*
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*Umberto Eco*