Talking about so-called realistic art, the problem is who would be the one dictating what is realistic, what is reality, what is normal, what is acceptable.
For example, there is a story that some guy was riding on a train with, who else, but Pablo Picasso. So the guy asks Picasso: "Why is all your art, all modern art, so screwed up? Why don’t you paint reality instead of these distortions?"
Picasso asks him, "So what do you think reality looks like?"
The man pulls out a picture of his wife from his wallet and says, "Here, like this. Like the photo of my wife."
Picasso takes the photograph, looks at it, and says, "Really? She’s very small. And flat, too."
For example, there is a story that some guy was riding on a train with, who else, but Pablo Picasso. So the guy asks Picasso: "Why is all your art, all modern art, so screwed up? Why don’t you paint reality instead of these distortions?"
Picasso asks him, "So what do you think reality looks like?"
The man pulls out a picture of his wife from his wallet and says, "Here, like this. Like the photo of my wife."
Picasso takes the photograph, looks at it, and says, "Really? She’s very small. And flat, too."
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
