There is more that we know about the world that we don’t know how to articulate. True art occurs when something articulates something we’ve been trying to say our entire lives. It’s something right at the tip of your toungue but you can’t say it. You live your whole life trying to say it, and then you experience the bliss of finally saying it. Finally being able to point to “it” and saying that’s what I tried to say. Great art can be quantified in some fashion, by how many people resonate with it. The more people have that “thing” on the tip of their tongue waiting for someone to gently tell them, the more successful, and timeless the art becomes. I can’t think of any examples, but I often think of Crime and Punishment, and the Bible. Jack Harlow said “It can't be these verses That make people feel like I'm talking to them”.
The reason I say we know more about the world than we think we do is because, we can’t really explain all our actions yet we do them. For example, reading body language, we are all quite capable of knowing when someone is in distress. They signal it out into the world. It may be unkept hair, the way they stutter, the way they can’t make a cohesive sentence. Many of these markers may been happening at the same time, but even if I ask you during or after the event, you may not be able to identify these things, yet it exists. You can still see a BIG picture, they are distressed. In that same way, there must be other things that you know, but can’t really explain.
Aside:
There’s this kid in my class, that always talks to the professor about the oilers game. Every single class, he’s there talking about how they should do this and that. The prof enjoys it very much as well, since he too is an oilers fan. Lets say we go 15 years forward, and the prof has to recognize between me and that student. I’m betting on him recognizing the other guy. I show up to every class, I ask questions every single class. I’ve been to his office hours, I even fixed the projector so he can teach our class. Yet, I still don’t think it’s as powerful as a genuine human connection. I can’t complain about this, since I’ve gained way too much from being personable with people. I thought this was interesting to share, sometimes being the smartest person is the room, is not as good as being the funniest. I believe most times you want to be the person that people want to be around, and who doesn’t want to be around a fun guy.