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The goal of art is something grand—a glimpse of living mystery.

posted in Views on May 7, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry 0 Comments

Walter Pater famously said that all art continually aspires to the condition of music. Not arranged pieces inside a box—though that might well be what the work of art is—but an experience that you are swept up in, or at least glimpse, something larger, something utterly mysterious.

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