Brian Eno
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1,303 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Jul
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It just makes our minds better at imagining, but they can just as easily be imagining terrible things.
You know, one of the great art collectors of the twentieth century was um Himmler.
had a huge collection, which he'd stolen mostly from Dutch and Low Countries Jews, French Jews, and he was apparently very uh
learned in that area.
But to your point, the ability of something to make a mind work better isn't the same as the ability of something to make a mind work to good ends.
That's a different problem.
That's a that's a problem of morality, spirituality, something like that.
That's a very good way of putting it, I think.
We've been told somehow that art is this very important thing that is good for you.
And I think it is, but I don't think it's good for you in that way.
I don't think it necessarily improves you in any moral dimension whatsoever.
I think it's quite possible that um as some people now insist, Picasso was a bit of a shit.
He was more than a bit of a shit.
a remarkable artist.
I'm going light on
Yeah.
But it's funny that we expect that it would be otherwise.
It's because we've we've sort of imputed a moral dimension to art, and all I'm saying is that no, I think it's much more biologically functional than we think it is.
I don't think it's such a spiritual moral business being an artist.
Have you ever heard of a place in Switzerland, Lausanne, called the Musee de l'Ar Brut?
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