Placing art in opposition to that kind of functional practicality gives art an important kind of power, the capacity to reveal a world beyond utility – a world we lose sight of all too often in the need to justify everything via claims to usefulness.
Chris Bateman, about Oscar Wilde’s notion of the uselessness of art
http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2014/05/the-value-of-art.html (via notgames)
http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2014/05/the-value-of-art.html (via notgames)