In a message dated 3/1/10 2:28:24 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Free beauty resides in something with no concept of how the thing ought > to be made,or what purpose it ought to serve-flowers, Grecian arabesques > or > music without words. > > Put it to the test. Try to make something for which there is no concept > and no purpose. Impossible. I don't see how that can be. No matter what > you begin to make, you can't avoid all sorts of associations, names, as-ifs, > etc. That why I can't get the idea of purposelessness. > > None of your associations are going to be readable in what you make I think . You can't make flowers and swirly marks don't look right if you start shoving things in them. Besides he doesn't say it has no purpose, but that you can't see it and you have no preconceived idea of how to make it. You could argue that if you mak a tune in a specific key then you have an idea of how it should be made, but you shouldn't have one to do it right. KAte
