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Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is…

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I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour:…

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