Miskatonic University PressLast week I posted this definition of art by Jerrold Northrop Moore:
Art is the imposition of form on experience.
Today I saw this in Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic post Why I don’t like AI art:
As a working artist in his third decade of professional life, I’ve concluded that the point of art is to take a big, numinous, irreducible feeling that fills the artist’s mind, and attempt to infuse that feeling into some artistic vessel – a book, a painting, a song, a dance, a sculpture, etc – in the hopes that this work will cause a loose facsimile of that numinous, irreducible feeling to manifest in someone else’s mind.
The first half of that is basically Moore’s definition. The second half fits with Alfred North Whitehead’s longer definition, quoted in the original post.