On art: a reaction to quotes from Brian Eno

About a week ago, my friend Brian (not Brian Eno) posted this on Fb:
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/happy-birthday-brian-eno-the-father-of-ambient-music-on-art/

I had this reaction (which I didn't end up posting on his Fb acct bcz it doesn't look like it doubles as a conversational blog the way mine does):

The quotes cited do not suggest an attachment to the universal subconscious, though ... for a variety of reasons, I am not surprised that this is lacking, but the lack creates the impossibility of any given piece of art/ artistic effort having  any predictable or even actual effect on humanity beyond the strictly visceral (and the psychological/emotional changes that can be wrought through strictly visceral channels).  It is no wonder that the thoughts quoted, then, are not only basically ontological but at some level nihilistic.

Art produced with this lack of intention is very unlikely to touch the underlying levels of creation in a positive manner, although certainly because of its separated'ness it can affect our universal mind/world in a negative, destroying way ...

If one is willing to admit the existence of a universal subconscious and/or a God (either route will get you there), then the creative ideas, the forms, the energy of the colors, the resolution, the frequency of the sounds, the dance, the making -- they all *can* (not always do) become the motions of energetic/spiritual transformation for the artist(s), the surrounding people, and the people who encounter the art, and I would argue, also, the world in general ... a fundamental act of creation: literally sharing in the eternal creation of the universe.  Even a purely secular view of the universe as shifting and interactive mathematical equations has led some thinkers to perceiving this type of malleability in the base levels of existence.

This is why I think art matters.

This is why every breath matters.

Interactivity, intentional awareness, and deepening understanding of the 'most real' things are the only way we can learn a workable, sustainable -- hopefully true -- morality.  I can understand how it is that many people perceive that the judgements of people are, in the end, what determines value ... theirs is an extremely rational and quite logical worldview based on what many people consider the only reasonably 'provable' level of existence ... but I deeply, deeply disagree with them.