Optimistic Nihilism

Okay, so it's not particularly art related (except in the sense it looks nice, I suppose) but it's worth a watch.

Some people are comforted by the idea there's something "out there," whether that's some sort of Higher Power or universal truth but personally, it's the lack of a universal truth that makes me feel that living here and now is the most important thing there is. I'm not working for a better existence in an afterlife and I'm not trying to please some unknowable entity.

If this life is all there is, then life is what you make of it.

(From Kurzgesagt's YouTube channel)

How much time should you take to look?

Well, this is interesting: How long do people really spend looking at art in museums?

The takeaway: (1) I guess I am really weird and it explains why I often get the stink-eye from overzealous museum guards, and (2) I shouldn’t stress out so much about my paintings since nobody else will look at them as intently as I do.

I wonder what the statistics would be if you separated out the painters from the general population. I know I can tell when it’s a painter looking at art because they have that “how in the hell did he do that?” squint as they look. I also know that the benches are never just where I want them, or I would spend a whole lot more time staring. (Would I be rude if I brought my own chair?)