# Mental Artworks ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/reader/parsed_document_assets/360542990/TLdUEpMUXV5NW6MmgIuj7gsr_I4v8ntYgrWWgYtzW54-cove_BxEeKBC.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Rob]] - Full Title: Mental Artworks - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Document Note: I didn't find this very interesting - Summary: Art is usually physical, but some works may exist only in the mind. Creators can form complete pieces mentally without making them public. Privacy and identity objections can be met, so mental artworks should count. - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/360542990 ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > There are prima facie reasons to take the idea seriously: Mozart reputedly held entire symphonies in his mind before writing them down; poets may rehearse verses mentally; and many creators describe the imaginative stage of a work as its most vivid, prior to the compromises of execution. Conceptual artists such as Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Robert Barry, and Yoko Ono have also suggested that ideas themselves may constitute artworks. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k4mh7ag4pp5vf1szf6tpxf6t)) - Note: hmmmmm