For my personal response to “Knowledge and the Arts” I would like to start everything off with a quote from page one “Can we learn anything from art ?” (pg 1.) And to that quote I say yes, but I believe there are no specific steps to dissect to learn art, the understanding and learning is completely personal. Art or any object around us has absolutely no meaning. They are just objects. The meaning they have is the one we decide to give them. A wall, when you look at that specific wall you feel something from it, remember something from it etc. But another person can see that same wall and just identify it as a wall with no meanings attached. What I’m trying to say is that you give ordinary things meaning from behind a personal belief or life experience the person beside you doesn’t have. But, the artist does gift their piece with a frequency, the frequency emits an energy level and that energy level corresponds to a specific emotion. You can get a grasp of that emotion behind the art piece, but the dissection and understanding of the art piece is all left to your personal perspective and the meaning YOU decide to give the art piece wether YOU decide to pick up the frequency and assign it an emotion or also believing it represents something but it really is just a representation of a personal belief. A very important quote I would like to add to start my closing statement that I agree with the most from the whole text is: “the same work of art: an adventure story that thrilled us when we were ten years old may appear trite and boring when we pick up again a decade later. In other words, value in art depends on the interaction of my mind, heart, and experience with the work of art.”(pg) To this quote I say is that I believe that art meaning is just about personal beliefs that came from experiences. For example, An artist when they created their piece could’ve done their piece with a frequency and limiting belief that in the future, that same artist maybe doesn’t have that limiting belief anymore and now they don’t relate and see their work in the same perspective and meaning they gave their work before. In conclusion, there are no 123 steps to get the meaning from art because every person that sees the same work of art will have a different perspective and will try to give the work a meaning but the art is just mirroring a frequency that makes them remember; and that is the meaning and knowledge they apply to it.