Art expresses emotion. Or art expresses the artist’s emotion. Or art expresses our emotion. Or we express emotion about art. Or all four. Yes, all four.

Art expresses emotion. The art does not, in and of itself. The art just lies there, paint on canvas, paint on wood, ink on paper, stone on stone, brick on brick. The value of art is not in its sum. Added together no amount of words will equal anything remotely resembling art. The sum of the parts is nothing more than a million monkeys at a million typewriters turning out the work of Shakespeare. If you couple enough words, enough paint, enough bricks and mortar together you are bound to eventually get something that looks like art. But it will not be art. The value of art is not the sum of the parts.

Art, like God, is not three equals one. Art, like God, is three in one. But art can be much more than three. Art can be anything and everything, or just as easily, nothing. It

We understand that communication will not come from God and so we substitute the artist for God and call the emotion that results from the art spiritual.

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