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Every moment of every day art is created. A person can look at anything for a period of time, and eventually find some artistic quality to it. Will that quality that he or she finds be the same as the artist’s, or even the same as the person standing right next to them? Of course not. But does that really matter? What is most important in a work of art, the artist’s intention, …

…never stop people from putting their energies into thinking about both questions, however. Even if we cannot ever grasp the concept of infinity, we will strive to get close to it. And so artists continue to search for meaning in their work, authors keep writing their endless thoughts and ideas down concerning the implications to the “aftermath of the death of God” (Rushdie 338), and little children still fall asleep wondering where their thoughts come from.