Deora: Great artists engage in distribution, not just isolated creative production
“Historically, it's always been clear that the greatest artists are involved in the whole process, but people, you know, wrongly misinterpret art as being just in your space and, you know, going crazy in a room, and the whole world is bad, but because you're no…”
Galloway says billionaires buying art and wine remain uncultured douchebags
“Art and wine. Art is I'm trying to buy culture. I've been a boring douchebag my whole life. So all of a sudden I'm going to start overspending on art and it makes me interesting. No, it doesn't. You're still the same douchebag.”
Oliver Wang: Great art is often in-distribution relative to prior art
“I think that out of distribution sample, that is a little bit too restrictive. I think a lot of great art is actually in distribution for art that occurred before it.”
Oliver Wang: Human intent is the defining element of art
“Like to me, I think that the most important thing for art is intent. And so the, what is generated from these models is, is a tool to allow people to create art.”
Colbert: Art is by humans, for humans, and about being human
“Art is by humans for humans about being human. It's not about Ideas. Because ideas are constructs, and humans are not a construct. They experience ideas, and they have emotional responses to them, and I think art is that combination of an idea that, that elici…”
Rick Rubin: All Art Is Sampling and Remixing
“All art is a version of sampling and remixing. It doesn't start from zero.”
Rick Rubin says initial AI outputs are baselines for subversive art
“The first thing you get back will probably be the most obvious version. But when you see the most obvious version, it might give you ideas of what you could suggest to get something that's a little more interesting, maybe more subversive, which is what most ar…”
Schaad: Modern design focuses on problem solving, while art asks questions
“Where art is more about kind of like asking questions whereas design these days is more actually about kind of problem solving and answering questions. They're learning solutions, basically.”
Schiffman: Viewing Startup Work as Art Eliminates Competition and Anxiety
“You know, if you view your work as art, you have no competition and you have no fear of failure, and I think it just removes this anxiety that you have over it needing to be perfect or anything like that.”
Badshah: AI Will Not Succeed at Creating Art
“And that is also one of the reasons why AI might not be, I think it will not be successful. But eventually of creating art, and for a consumer or for an audience to discover it, the way they discover it, is what it is all about. That beauty can't be quantized.”
Matty Mo: Most artists produce decorative goods, not generation-defining cultural artifacts
“Some people think of art as like The most important cultural artifacts of a generation, and to be real, many artists are not making the most, most important cultural artifacts of a generation. They're making pretty things, and what are pretty things? Decoratio…”
Evans: The nature of art is that if it can be copied, it is not art
“The nature of art is that you can't copy it. If you can copy it, it's not art.”
Smith: Highly refined AI art does not guarantee audience resonance
“And so your point just reminded me of this idea where art especially Is subjective and what people like and resonate with is not necessarily the most refined or extravagant, precise type of imagery, which you can generate in some of these text to image tools, …”
Isenberg: AI will never become a boss in art due to subjectivity
“So in art, like, I don't think art will ever be your boss. The AI won't be your boss because there's a certain level of subjectivity associated with every art piece.”
Evans: Generative AI will not end art any more than Photoshop did
“I think there's a, you can, one can dismiss very quickly the concept, oh my god, this is like the end of art. No, no more than Photoshop was. It's another form. It's another thing that you can do.”
Evans: Generative AI will not destroy art, just as photography did not
“Like people saying that like generative networks will destroy art, like
It's kind of like the same photographs will destroy art.
Like, go look up the Nadar picture of Delacroix.
It's like, no, this is art.”
Marcus: AI Will Change Art but Humans Will Remain Creative Filters
“I think it probably will change art. I think in general that humans are still going to be like the creative inspiration and are often going to be filtering things.”
Roberts: Climate Art Struggles Because Scale Conflicts with Specificity
“It's so big and so distant and so kind of all-encompassing and abstract that it's very difficult to approach it via a specific place or person or story or relationship, and those specifics are what give art its power and its meaning.”
Singh: The real utility for NFTs is in gaming, not art
“And I think that applicability is not actually an art, but I think it's in gaming.”
The global art asset class is worth $1.7 trillion
“The total size of the asset class is 1.7 trillion dollars.”
Lynn: Majority of created art has outperformed the S&P 500
“At least for the majority of art created, it's outperformed the S&P.”
Lynn: 2019 Citi study proved art is uncorrelated with markets
“We did a research study with Citibank in, in, in 19 that concluded that it was also uncorrelated.”
Haidt: Tech, Media, and Arts Workplaces Are Changing to Accommodate Gen Z
“I've heard from a number of people in journalism, the arts, and media, and tech. In those four industries, it seems as though the organizations are changing to accommodate the students.”
Lantz: Entertainment is hard to predict because art must be unpredictable
“It's particularly hard to predict entertainment. Because part of the job of art and entertainment is to be unpredictable.”
Eck: Magenta aims to generate coherent long-form music and art
“I think composing, creating long form pieces, whether they're music or art, I think is, is something we want to do. And this hints at this idea of like, not just having these things that make sense at like, 20 seconds of music time, but actually say something …”
Xu: Design Trends Flow From Fine Art to Fashion to Home Decor
“So it started from a very high level of art, and then it trickles down to fashion, and finally it goes to home.”
Arbesman: Science and art are beautiful outputs constrained by reality and medium
“Science is almost like beautiful output constrained by reality, and art is also beautiful output constrained by reality of the media that you're using in some very different sort of ways.”
Galef: Art creation is orthogonal to rationality because it is expressive
“I kind of think of art as being orthogonal independent of rationality. The kinds of things that the artist is trying to do are mostly not trying to get the right answer to a question or achieve a goal. It's more of an expressive process.”