Monthly Archives: March 2005

On Art, again.

“Science advances at the rate that technology provides tools of greater precision, while art advances at the pace that evolution provides minds with greater insight – a pace that is, for better or worse, glacially slow. Thus while the stone tools fashioned by cave dwellers an Ice Age ago are hopelessly primitive by current technological standards, their wall paintings remain as elegant and expressive as any modern art. And while a hundred civilizations have prospered (sometimes for centuries) without computers or windmills or even the wheel, none have survived even a few generations without art.
Art is art partially because it is constantly taking what has been done to the next level. Interesting in the context of art’s timeless quality and “glacial” innovation. Please leave some thoughts. I am running low on my own.

I have forgotten, too.

“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college – that my job was to teach people how to draw.
She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, ‘You mean they
forget?’”
-Howard Ikemoto.