On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:21 AM, William Conger wrote:
that is true in all walks of life.
I was going to say the same thing: For every Celine Dion or Michael Jordan or Meryl Streep, there are many others with the same raw talent who have never come to the public's notice. All renown is partly the luck of randomness in large numbers. One quantum of solace to find in this is that, after getting a bit sated by seeing or hearing the same ten or fifty of one hundred figures, when you find another comparably talented person work in an obscure or distant place, the effect may well be greater than that of the "biggies." I remember a conversation I had some years ago with an art history professor at Duke, who had been a long-time personal friend of Clement Greenberg and thus quite exposed to tons of 20C art. I commented that I had read in the news that an unknown Picasso painting has been discovered somewhere. "It's not all that exciting," she said. "There are thousands of Picassos" (or words to that effect).
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