There is something very strange about the art world, which, I think, has to do with art stemming from four different motivations that often come into tension with each other.
More specifically, I suspect that art is created mainly for four reasons:
1) Urge: many artists seem to have a compulsion to create (sometimes, to create oddly specific things). They make art to satisfy this urge. In this category, I would also include art that is mainly motivated by helping the artist ach...
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