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If knowledge is cumulative for us humans, and I think it must be, then those artists living today should be the greatest artist ever to have lived. If this is not true, and I guess a case could be made that it is not, then why not?
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Ok, I'll bite. Could it be because collectively we tend to sever the past? To see it as a separate thing instead of acknowledging continuity? Our culture rejects age, maturity, tears town old buildings, old trees, old cultures. By rejecting the past, we reject knowledge.
Here's what we CAN do:
- Approach everything with a heightened sense of significance
- Keep this question at the back of your mind: what have we become satisfied with?
(This last paragraph was pulled out of my sketchbook notes from a Jeffrey Mims anatomy lecture.)