How does art relate to the perception and appreciate of reality?
In the ordinary sense, when we talk about a work of art, we generally regard it as requiring talent. Some people begin to reject themselves because they feel they don’t have talent. It could be even sewing, cooking, painting, interior decorating, photography, or anything that involves aesthetics. Of course, flower arranging is included. But we are not talking about talent as such. Generally speaking, we believe that everyone who possesses the appreciation of sight, smell, sound, feelings, is capable of communicating with the rest of the world. In Buddhism we talk about the sense perceptions, the sense organs, and the sense objects, which actually work together. The perceptions begin to project, through sense organs toward sense objects. It could be regarded as film in your camera. The film could be regarded as sense consciousness, and the camera itself could be regarded as sense organs, and the view that you see could be regarded as sense objects. Anybody is capable of doing this and p
