The point of learning art and music is not just “generating” stuff, as the current use of this fashionable word aims to suggest. Studying arts means gaining access to the immortal classics: It means having the privilege of comprehending the magic and logic of Beethoven’s work, note by note, why your favorite rock band constructed their riffs in the way they did, or which ingenious technique Leonardo invented to express himself. Intelligence and art are before anything else love for understanding