"Art does not fundamentally exist for the purpose of making the people who make it happy. If making art were a reliable way to be made happy, then the most prolific artists in the world would be the happiest people—and they manifestly are not.".

"But even in the best imaginable future for this technology, “AI art” generators would still be nothing more than diverting simulations—video games that let their players pretend to be artists. They would be to art what MLB: The Show is to baseball.".

"The best artists are those who are willing to spend significant time and effort to improve their work in ways that most people will never even notice . All good art comes into being on the far side of a diminishing return.".

"I think that many people who are not directly affected by intellectual property law assume that it is simple and fair, and that the legal definition of theft more or less matches its moral definition. This is not actually so.".

"The encroachment of generative AI into the realm of traditional sacred art is particularly scandalous because traditional sacred art is meant not only to represent the real world of substantial things, but also to connect that real world to a higher spiritual reality.".

"Saying that using Midjourney is hard work for you is like telling the world that you find making boxed macaroni and cheese difficult. That admission makes your claim to be a chef less convincing, not more so.".

This is an essay I wrote recenly on art and generative AI. Some excerpts:.

RT @mattswaim: Ascension coloring, with gratitude to @danielmitsuiart

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Fifteen tiles with roses refer to the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary.

Other tiles spell the words Credo, Spero, Adoro and Amo, referring to the prayer that the three children learned from an angel: My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love Thee! I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee.

The sunburst behind her head represents the Miracle of the Sun seen on 13 October 1917. She stands on a pattern of tiles in the Portuguese azulejo style, including ones that bear the calligraphed Arabic names for Mary and Fatima.

Our Lady of Fatima was seen by three shepherd children in Portugal in 1917. I based this drawing loosely on the statue in the Chapel of the Apparitions. She has a rosary about her, indicating her request for daily rosary prayers.

Our Lady of Fatima, ink drawing on goatskin parchment.

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These include pigs and crabs (a reference to the Mosaic doctrine of uncleanness that was made obsolete by the New Covenant), and thorns to indicate suffering.

Explicitly religious pictures seem not to have been used commonly in medieval fabrics, perhaps because of the impropriety of cutting them. Here I have chosen images that are whimsical but suggestive of the overall subject of the pictures.

of Christ’s garment. The plants and animals that appear in the ornamental border and halo are ones that lived on Molokai in the time of St. Damien. Most of them are endemic to Hawaii, and some are now extinct. The damask pattern is my own design.