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Exactly. Pushing a photo through a Van Gogh filter doesn't get near what a real Van Gogh expresses. It's in a temporal context, communicates something about the person and their thoughts about reality. Their artistic choices matter, because they can't just put out 10 different variations, instead they have to pick one. And then we can think about why that one was chosen.




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