Q: Do you feel concerned that after all this work, people won't treat [Starship Titanic] with the gravity of, say, a movie or a book? That they won't treat it as an art form? D. A.: I hope that's the case, yes. I get very worried about this idea of art. Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.. [I]f somebody wants to come along and say, "Oh, it's art, " that's as may be. I don't really mind that much. But I think that's for other people to decide after the fact. It isn't what you should be aiming to do. There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.". . I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art, but merely practicing a craft, and working as good craftsmen.. I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created. Douglas Adams
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I think that art is a form of expression. There are a lot of things that we do that are not art, but I think they all have a certain aesthetic or artistic quality. In my opinion, art is a form of expression and if you feel like expressing yourself in some way, then it's art. If you can't express yourself in some way, it's not art.

That's the difference between art and craft. There are many things that we do that are not art but they have an artistic quality to them. For example, architecture has an aesthetic quality to it because it has a relationship to nature which is something that art does beautifully.

If you're not artistic you're just doing things for the sake of doing them.

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