Art is unnecessary...

“In the best of all possible worlds, art would be unnecessary. Its offer of restorative, placative therapy would go begging a patient. The professional specialization involved in its making would be presumption. The generalities of its applicability would be an affront. The audience would be the artist and their life would be art.” — Glenn Gould

This quote reveals a very unusual way of thinking and suggests that the very reason we create is because something is missing.

Art, then, becomes a symptom—a beautiful one, perhaps, but still a sign of fracture.

And in Gould’s imagined world, none of this would be needed. No stages, no applause, no profession—just life, lived so fully and attentively that it becomes indistinguishable from art.

It’s a provocative idea. One that doesn’t ask us to make more art, but to live in such a way that art is no longer separate from who we are. That’s not a dismissal of creation—it’s a challenge.

What if the most honest piece we ever compose is the way we move through the world when no one is listening?

Intersting, and beautiful thought.

Have a nice day,

Claudio.

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