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by theRealMe 1306 days ago
Paint isn’t the constraint of a painter. Imagination is. The same imagination that constrains AI prompting.

The value a person prescribed to a painting isn’t in how the painter was able to manipulate the paint, it’s in what the painting as a whole means to them.

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> Paint isn’t the constraint of a painter. Imagination is.

What can you paint, right now, at this moment, this second. Probably very little

Now what, at this same moment, can you imagine. Anything. You can imagine absolutely anything. Imagination is unlimited. Whether what is imagined is art or not is besides the point.

> The value a person prescribed to a painting isn’t in how the painter was able to manipulate the paint, it’s in what the painting as a whole means to them.

The craft does not matter? Only the content? How do you separate the craft from the content?