Krupt.com - Projects and Artwork by Tim Hon
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Art is the selective re-creation or conversion of reality by the human mind into concrete imagery according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments. Real or imagined concepts are filtered and altered through the human mind to the artist's hand to create an image or sound that did not exist before.

(According to Dru Blair, master airbrush artist)

He goes on to say, which I may not necessarily agree with:

The reason photography does not qualify as art is that the process removes the filter of the human mind as an interpretative element. Although photography requires technical skill, in the final analysis it is only a mechanical recording of reality.

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