Art & Product

When you decide to buy an artist’s work—be it a song, a painting, or a sculpture—you are not merely purchasing an object; you are, in truth, buying its authenticity. In that act, the question of “feedback” loses all relevance. The moment a creation begins to depend on feedback—on someone else’s direction or taste—it transforms into a product.

This raises a crucial question: Is art not a product too?
Indeed, art has the potential to become a product (though not necessarily the desire to be one). But the proper sequence is that it must first be art. The transformation follows, it does not precede.

For instance, imagine you “buy” a Picasso. Now, if Picasso were to create a piece specifically for you—based on your feedback, your direction, and your commercial intent—that work would be born already possessing the characteristics of a product. It would lack that singular, unrepeatable birth that defines art.

In contrast, true art admits no “repair” or modification. It is one and indivisible—a defining quality of art itself. The artist is the sole editor of their own creation; no one else may intervene.

Art can be tainted by popularity, yes, but that is no sin. Popularity, however, can never be the measure of art.

Art, too, responds to need, but not to a materialistic one. Therefore, it does not depend on external permission, nor does it obey command. No one can order you to feel or to think through art.

A product, by contrast, is entirely grounded in material need. It lives and grows through external approval, direction, and the possibility of revision.

This thought extends much further and deeper—but I do not feel inclined to elaborate beyond this point.

Footnote:
I see neither “art” nor “product” through the lens of greatness. Both simply are, each in its own right.

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D.A.
091025
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