Art is an adventure. When it ceases to be an adventure, it ceases to be art. Not all of us pursue the inaccessible landscapes of the twelve-tone scale, just as not all of us strive for inaccessible mountain-tops, or glory in storms at sea. But the human incidence is there. Could it be that these two impractical pursuits – of beauty and of adventure’s embrace – are simply two differing profiles of the same uniquely human reality? . Robert Ardrey
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