In a message dated 6/4/08 3:00:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I think the idea that art 'satisfies' is silly anyway. It is linked to
> the idea that art exists merely to be a source of 'pleasure'. Who but
> the stereotype 'aesthete' thinks that any longer?
>
Spoken like a true "non-artist", someone who has never had the experience of
creating the kinds of works most of us are devoted to.
Critics, sociologists, moralists, leaders of "movements" -- they all would
tell creators what they "ought" to be doing, what their "purpose" should be,
what their "function" is. Luckily, worthy creative passion and satisfaction is
deaf to all that.
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