On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:54 PM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote:

> It's impossible to talk aout art without being vague because art is always
> subjective even when it's modified by measurable, objective categories of
> definition like utility, social ideal, etc.
>
> Money is no measure of art anymore than it's a measure of any subjective
> measures.  Proust tells the story of a woman who is so deeply loved by a
> rich
> aristocrat that he is goes broke lavishing 100,000 franc gifts on her and
> being
> sick with jealousy and passion even though she is a common whore who can
> be had
> for 20 francs by anyone. In her the rich man sees a woman as an angel from
> God
> while others see her as a coarse tart.  She is what is projected to her.
>  Art.
>



Are you talking about MAN OF LA MANCHA's Dulcinea?

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