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*There is no indecency in art.*
Art is an endeavor (and by extension also its results) that seeks discovery and creation of [beauty](beauty.md) and primarily relies on intuition, its value is in feelings it gives rise to. While the most immediate examples of art that come to mind are for example [music](music.md) and painting, even the most [scientific](science.md) and rigorous effort like [math](math.md) and [programming](programming.md) becomes art when pushed to the highest level, to the boundaries of current knowledge where intuition becomes important for further development. Where exactly to draw the boundary between art and non-art is a matter of philosophy, [culture](culture.md) and personal opinion, but usually art is thought to require attributes of a living human being such as something akin "soul", thinking, intuition, experience, creativity and emotion -- that which is performed only mechanically is not seen as art. Even though latest [artificial intelligence](ai.md) shows that art can possibly be produced even by a machine, the machine has to be very sophisticated and mimic very complex human thinking -- even if made by a machine, there must be an element of [magic](magic.md) present, a touch of muse, something not completely understood, for a work to be classified as art. At [LRS](lrs.md) we use the word "art" quite broadly, not just for fine art, but also for any craft, and for that which might normally be called "[work](work.md)", as the word "work" to use carries a negative connotation.
Art is an endeavor (and by extension also its results) that seeks discovery and creation of [beauty](beauty.md) and primarily relies on intuition, its value is in feelings it gives rise to. While the most immediate examples of art that come to mind are for example [music](music.md) and painting, even the most [scientific](science.md) and rigorous effort like [math](math.md) and [programming](programming.md) becomes art when pushed to the highest level, to the boundaries of current knowledge where intuition becomes important for further development. Where exactly to draw the boundary between art and non-art is a matter of philosophy, [culture](culture.md) and personal opinion, but usually art is thought to require attributes of a living human being such as something akin "soul", thinking, intuition, experience, creativity and emotion -- that which is performed only mechanically is not seen as art. Even though latest [artificial intelligence](ai.md) shows that art can possibly be produced even by a machine, the machine has to be very sophisticated and mimic very complex human thinking -- even if made by a machine, there must be an element of [magic](magic.md) present, a touch of muse, something not completely understood, for a work to be classified as art. At [LRS](lrs.md) we use the word "art" quite broadly, not just for fine art, but also for any craft, and for that which might normally be called "[work](work.md)", as the word "work" to us carries a negative connotation.
**Good art always needs time**, usually a lot of time, and you cannot predict how much time it will need, **art cannot be made on schedule** or as a product. By definition creating true art is never a routine (though it requires well trained skills in routine tasks), it always invents something new, something no one has done before (otherwise it's just copying that doesn't need an artist) -- in this sense the effort is the same as that of research and science or exploring previously unwalked land, you can absolutely never know how long it will take you to invent something, what complications you will encounter or what you will find in an unknown land. You simply do it, fail many times, mostly find nothing, you repeat and repeat until you find the good thing. For this art also requires a lot of effort -- yes, there are cases of masterpieces that came to be very casually, but those are as rare as someone finding a treasure by accident. Art is to a great degree a matter of chance, trial and error, the artist himself doesn't understand his own creation when he makes it, he is only skilled at searching and spotting the good, but in the end he is just someone who invests a lot of time into searching, many times blindly.