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Re: everything goes back to...





Kelvin, You are absolutely fabulous!  I was just about to say the EXACT
same thing, but I'm sure I never could've phrased it so delicately.  

Art created for anyone other then the artist just turns out hollow.
Art is inherintly selfish.
-Just look at "Yo Picasso"
jen



> I tend to disagree.  I think if something is created with the 
> reaction of
> others in mind, it ceases to be art and has taken the first step to 
> being
> a marketing ploy at best and propoganda at worst.  Maybe I'm naive, 
> but I
> honestly believe real art is created out of a sense of compulsion on 
> the
> part of the artist.  It may make no sense to anyone but him - and 
> maybe
> not even to him.  But it is in someway true to his experience.  I do
> believe, however, that the vast majority of experiences or emotions 
> a
> person can have are common to the vast majority of people.  So in 
> that
> sense, it would elicit an emotion or reaction.  I just think that if 
> that
> is its purpose it compromises the art.
> 
> I still believe that in some small corner of the cosmos there is
> something happening that is truly original.  I just don't know what 
> it
> is.  Okay, maybe I am naive.
> 
> Kelvin
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