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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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