A note is a space for writing down fragments of thoughts that arise spontaneously.

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The reason many people refuse to acknowledge much of contemporary art seems to lie in the belief that art must necessarily involve some form of sublime effort and craftsmanship. Up to the present, art has developed through advances in technique and education, growing in multiple directions and requiring artists to exert themselves further, consolidating their skills in order to make it their own. Thus, the familiar forms of past art came to be understood as the artist’s expression of their inner imagery and inspiration through a kind of artisanal mastery.

Contemporary audiences, having learned and become accustomed to such past forms of art through public education, are reluctant to recognize as art those practices in which artisanal effort no longer appears to play a central role. This rejection seems less a matter of rational aesthetic judgment than of emotional aesthetic judgment. They have, as it were, become assimilated into the world of past artists, and thus arrive at a kind of emotional refusal—rooted in resentment—toward works that receive acclaim without requiring the same kind of laborious effort.