Art

   There is no indecency in art.

   Art is an endeavor that seeks discovery and creation of [1]beauty and
   primarily relies on intuition, its value is in feelings it gives rise to.
   While the most immediate examples of art that come to mind are for example
   [2]music and painting, even the most [3]scientific and rigorous effort
   like [4]math and [5]programming becomes art when pushed to the highest
   level, to the boundaries of current knowledge where intuition becomes
   important for further development.

   Good art always needs time, usually a lot of time, and you cannot predict
   how much time it will need, art cannot be made on schedule or as a
   product. By definition creating true art is never a routine (though it
   requires well trained skills in routine tasks), it always invents
   something new, something no one has done before (otherwise it's just
   copying that doesn't need an artist) -- in this sense the effort is the
   same as that of research and science or exploring previously unwalked
   land, you can absolutely never know how long it will take you to invent
   something, what complications you will encounter or what you will find in
   an unknown land. You simply do it, fail many times, mostly find nothing,
   you repeat and repeat until you find the good thing. For this art also
   requires a lot of effort -- yes, there are cases of masterpieces that came
   to be very casually, but those are as rare as someone finding a treasure
   by accident. Art is to a great degree a matter of chance, trial and error,
   the artist himself doesn't understand his own creation when he makes it,
   he is only skilled at searching and spotting the good, but in the end he
   is just someone who invests a lot of time into searching, many times
   blindly.

   Art is discovered, not made. The author of art is merely a discovered of
   some beautiful pattern of nature, he may not even fully comprehend or
   understand that which he discovered, he must in no way be its owned or
   arbiter (as capitalism wants to make it with bullshit such as
   [6]copyright). Author has no higher authority in interpretation of his art
   than anyone else.

   Art, like a [7]woman, is beautiful and just like a woman it too often
   sells itself and becomes a whore, it is too difficult to find sincere,
   pure art like it is difficult to find a sincere love of a woman.

See Also

     * [8]beauty
     * [9]databending
     * [10]music

Links:
1. beauty.md
2. music.md
3. science.md
4. math.md
5. programming.md
6. copyright.md
7. woman.md
8. beauty.md
9. databending.md
10. music.md