Art has always been about human expression, emotion, and intention communicated through a medium. When humans use AI as a tool—much like a brush, synthesizer, or DAW—to shape sound, convey feeling, explore ideas, or tell stories, the resulting work carries human artistic intent. The creativity lies in the prompt engineering, curation, editing, arrangement, and emotional direction, not in who/what physically produces each note.Tools evolve; the artistic soul remains human.Relevant links: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/is-ai-art-really-art https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/18/ai-music-art-debate-holly-herndon
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Abstract painting does not need explanation to be valid or powerful. Its strength often lies in direct, wordless emotional or sensory impact—color, form, texture, and rhythm speak before language arrives.Explanation can deepen understanding, reveal the artist’s intention, or open new layers for some viewers. For others, it dilutes the raw experience and kills mystery.Both attitudes are legitimate. The painting doesn’t care which side you choose.https://www.theartstory.org/definition/abstract-art/ https://www.nga.gov/features/slideshows/abstract-expressionism.html https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/abstract-art
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We once believed Earth was the center of everything. Now we know: our planet is an average rocky world orbiting an unremarkable star among ~200 billion in the Milky Way alone, which is just one of ~2 trillion galaxies. The observable universe contains roughly 10²⁴–10²⁵ stars — a scale so immense that the entire human population could fit on a single grain of sand repeated across every beach on Earth.We are not the main characters. We are, at best, an extremely recent and microscopically small footnote in a 13.8-billion-year-old story that is still being written.https://www.planetary.org/worlds/cosmic-address https://www.space.com/25303-how-many-stars-are-in-the-milky-way.html https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.04603 (Hubble deep field galaxy count)
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