Good Art

Excerpt from the book 'Shop Class as SoulCraft'

Good art - 

"Often seems to be mysterious because it resists the easy patterns of the fantasy, whereas there is nothing mysterious about the forms of bad art since they are recognizable and familiar rat-runs of selfish day-dream. Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision".

- by Iris Murdoch

So, what it demands is not just mental stamina, but something more fundamental. 

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Experience of learning

"If I am learning, for instance, Russian, I am confronted by an authoritative structure which commands my respect. The task is difficult and the goal is distant and perhaps never entirely attainable. My work is a progressive revelation of something which exists independently of me. Attention is rewarded by a knowledge of reality. Love of Russian leads me away from myself towards something alien to me, something which my consciousness cannot take over, swallow up, deny or make unreal. " 

by Iris Murdoch

I just tried replacing the word - 'Russian' to 'anything new'

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