Walter Pater said all art aspires to be music (and Kandinsky agreed), which is not the same as all instruments aspire to be art. Is a paintbrush art? Is painting a performance art? Maybe. Sometimes. It’s fun to think about.
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Of course instruments are works of art. Every Martin that comes off that line is a work of art, hand crafted with the best tone woods to produce the best sound.
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"Art is not a standard of beauty but what the mind can conceive beyond any standard." -Picasso
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Is tha strange?”. “Musical instruments are very beautiful,” I answer. “There is nothing strange about that.” Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami
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Yes! -“I am very interested in these things. I do not know why. I feel drawn to them. Their forms, their beauty.” “That is, musical instruments are wonderful things. I do not know how to use them, I may not want to use them, I enjoy their beauty. It is enough for me.
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No. They're functional. They MAKE art.
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Wrong. The tuba is a *figure* IN a work of art.
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