Why paint if you can take a photograph? Why take the trouble to paint something that takes days, even weeks, when AI can do it in ten minutes and win high-end art competitions? Because, with every brushstroke, a piece of me is expressed, and that’s a process of creativity. Creativity is something we humans have the profound ability to experience in all its varied forms. Perhaps AI will bring us back home – painters will no longer do it for show or for commercial reasons, but for and from the soul.

And we need soul! We need it more than ever on this planet, in our work and in our hearts. This ...

 

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