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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
yeah, this is one of things that i find frustrating and boring about a lot of art, art about art is probably the least interesting thing in the world and yet it is all over the place and when i was at art school the tutors would cream themselves over that stuff.
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I think when a piece of art is only about art, then yes, I agree. I like Truffaut's position: that truly
great art says something about art
and something about life. He was talking specifically about film but it works just as well if you replace the word 'film' with 'art'.