"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments. Man’s profound need of art lies in the fact that his cognitive faculty is conceptual, i.e., that he acquires knowledge by means of abstractions, and needs the power to bring his widest metaphysical abstractions into his immediate, perceptual awareness. Art fulfills this need: by means of a selective re-creation, it concretizes man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. It tells man, in effect, which aspects of his experience are to be regarded as essential, significant, important. In this sense, art teaches man how to use his consciousness. It conditions or stylizes man’s consciousness by conveying to him a certain way of looking at existence."
"Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and slogans, but its actual view of man and of existence."
Both of these quotes are from The Romantic Manifesto
Sauce for further exploration (this is a great "pick a topic" resource): http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/art.html
Link to OP about this: https://greatawakening.win/p/16b6RjkOv8/take-2-this-requires-disclaimer-/
she has a very unique philosophy which makes her the most sane example of a materialist. God works through atheists as well...
...but instead of attacking her character, why don't you specify which part of the statement you disagree with?
We don't need art, we don't think in concepts and our view of ourselves is not defined by art at all.
Art doesn't condition our consciousness to see the world in any particular way, its not the sum of our deepest philosophical values at all, its far deeper than that shallow and blinkered vision.
But then its very easy to say what art isn't, but who can say what it is? From a human perspective all artists are quite mad in one way or another, sanity doesn't enter into it at all.
If philosophy and philosophers are sane then I am Marie of Romania.
Your disagreement is duly noted but you have only made a non-argument.
maybe you should try reading the work of the person you're criticisiing first... this didn't really land
Art is beautification. Men have always moved to art when the immediate concerns of the day are met.
This influence can be clearly.seen in music, language, instruments, buildings, etc.
Your last sentence is a non Sequitur and has no bearing on the subject.