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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.