“Think of art and philosophy as long conversations in which participants come and go, some joining in at the end, others at the…
“Think of art and philosophy as long conversations in which participants come and go, some joining in at the end, others at the beginning, others coming late but insisting on learning what was said earlier, while others intervene without a good sense of whats going on. Or compare art and philosophy to martial arts: the unity of the field is the unity of the teaching lineage. It is real human relationships — student to teacher to teacher’s teacher to teacher’s teacher’s teacher, and so on.”— Noë, Alva. Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2015.