Meet Your Artistic and Athletic Mind: The Interaction Between Instincts and Intellect and its Impact on Human Behavior (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Human love of the arts goes to 82,000 years back; and Aristotle wrote the first book on arts. Since then it has been debated what art is, but still we lack a definition for it that would be acceptable to all. This shows that we do not understand it well enough to properly define it.This confusion stems from an inadequate philosophical perception of it and, therefore, we have been relishing that which we do not comprehend. Thus, we try to understand arts by studying art objects, however, we need to identify what in the mind longs for arts in its metaphysical realm to understand it. This is why we have been mixing novel, painting, music, acting, architecture, Persian rugs and poetry, as each category consists of endless number of art objects. Although they all are arts, they have nothing in common, but we insist on defining all by a single definition, to no avail.