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Mastery of art comes with **transcending the tool** in the sense of no longer being focused on the tools as well as no longer being its [slave](tool_slave.md). An amateur is obsessed with his tools, he keeps [hopping](hopping.md) editors, [languages](programming_language.md), distros, keyboards, headphones, drills, clothes, he says he can't work without his specific tools; a master comes and creates the art -- if he has no paintbrush, he does it with a pencil and if he doesn't have a pencil, he draws it in the sand. Master is only thinking about art and he can achieve it with most tools he can get his hands on. Chess master doesn't need a chessboard, football master can play barefoot, master climber doesn't need climbing equipment, master drummer can play with a stick he picks from the ground. Great composers, such as Bedrich Smetana, kept composing the best music even after they went deaf and lost what might seem like the most essential tool for composing: that of hearing the music; and yet a "composer" of the [21st century](21st_century.md) finds the audacity to call himself a "professional" while at the same time being unable to compose music without his favorite [DAW](daw.md) at hand. By eliminating the [dependency](dependency.md) on specific tools a mastery of art can be seen as a form of [freedom](freedom.md).
**Art is discovered**, not made. The author of art is merely a discoverer of some beautiful pattern of nature, he may not even fully comprehend or understand that which he discovered, he must in no way be its owned or arbiter (as capitalism wants to make it with bullshit such as [copyright](copyright.md)). Author has no higher authority in interpretation of his art than anyone else.
**Art is discovered**, not made. The author of art is merely a discoverer of some beautiful pattern of nature, he may not even fully comprehend or understand that which he discovered, he must in no way be considered its "owner" or arbiter of its use (as capitalism wants to make it with bullshit such as [copyright](copyright.md)). Author has no higher authority in interpretation of his art than anyone else.
Art, like a [woman](woman.md), is beautiful and just like a woman it too often sells itself and becomes a whore, it is too difficult to find sincere, pure art like it is difficult to find a sincere love of a woman.