Art can be adorned with things like style, aesthetics, taste, investment value, status and more. But then we pay attention to how art's dressed and not to what its most naked meaning is.
Thornton Dial, who died recently, was an illiterate, self-taught artist who worked much of his life at farm work and a list of menial jobs. He devoted himself to his art for his whole life and eventually became nationally recognized.
This is what he had to say about art:
Art is like a bright star up ahead in the darkness of the world. It can lead poeples through the darkness and help them from being afraid of the darkness. Art is a guide for every person who is looking for something. That's how I can describe myself: Mr. Dial is a man looking for something.
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