"The action of making art is an act in opposition to the Darwinian drive towards the survival of the fittest. Art is not forged by the instinct to survive; rather it emerges from the impulse to give a gift."

-from Anne's Bogart's blog

1 Comments:

Blogger ish said...

I like this, and find some truth here. But then, often art is also created to get laid, which is as base a Darwinian function as possible. So sometimes art is a gift, sometime it is reciprocally altruistic, and sometimes it is just the expression of an irreducible mental drive. I think its validity is unchanged in any of those cases, though.

February 3, 2010 at 7:12 PM  

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