Our art tells the story of what our culture wants to become. The art we consume tells the story of who we will become. Through art we apprehend with the imagination as the reality of beauty what the mind apprehends through cognition as the reality of truth.

Knowledge is specific and defined and clear because of the conceptual limitations placed upon it. Art is a vision that is more rich and deep and contains more content, but is less clear, less defined, less limited, less delineated. And it can be harder to spot and quantify what’s wrong with it, because it operates on a more unconscious level, through the imagination, and directly accesses our emotions and the concepts that underly our organized thoughts.