I'm not a dealer, an academic, or a street artist, and my own definition has remained constant: Street art--and the street art I photograph--must be in a public place, must be visually captivating and perhaps beautiful, must be the product of an informed intellect (not of a vandal), and must be purposeful.
You appeal to their heart more than their intellect, and when the heart informs the intellect (rather than vice-versa), healing begins.
"While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generate wisdom.
He epitomized superb clinical care, and was able to convey his approach, informed by both intellect and compassion, to the many students and residents who trained with him.
This coordination of the body is such that we sense and understand, and this is possible because the soul is informed by the intellect (De genio Socratis 589A).
Ultimately both the world soul and the human souls are informed by reason and become rational by coming into contact with the divine intellect.
"His writing is informed by a huge intellect and a huge degree of life experience unrivaled by most normal human beings," he said.
Aga Khan delivered the following statement at the Inauguration Ceremony of Aga Khan University in Karachi on November 11 , 1985 "The divine intellect Aql-i Kull, both transcends and informs the human intellect.
In both the human being and the world, the intellect is external to the soul (cf. Phaedrus 247c d); the world soul is informed by the reason of the creator god, the demiurge, while in the case of humans the intellect amounts to the "daimôn" assigned to each of us (De genio Socratis 591E), which is what Republic 620d and, especially, Timaeus 90a-d suggest.
Quaking sensitivity and a rigorous intellect inform the work, which resolves the Warholian conundrum of high versus low by embracing the irredeemably squalid.
But the divine intellect obviously does not have the same characteristics as ours, since in order to know something our intellect needs to be informed (per speciem) by its contents, and so is passive in a sense, whereas the divine intellect is itself the cause of its own contents.
