Reed Altemus wrote:
>Please elaborate on what you mean by a "higher artistic impulse". You mean like an
>aesthetic innovation or just doing what is called "right work".
I don't know if I can describe exactly what I am talking about. Everytime I try to
define it, I come up with a contradictory explanation, or something that isn't what I
mean. I keep running into "Whatever is communicated can only be falsehood and
falsification; hence it is only falsehoods and falsifications that are communicated"
(from Thomas Bernhard's autobiography which I am reading right now).
To try and put as directly and simply as possible, and in a personal manner, so I know
exactly what I am talking about: sometimes when I am creating something, I am Creative
and what I do seems Special to me (and sometimes to other people as well), while other
times, it is obvious that I am "going through the motions"; uninspired and what I do
is not special, and I want to erase it or hide it.
>I agree that self-control is desireable but too one must express the real thing with
>the first white hot impulse and without second guessing yourself.
This is true, but at some point I am always going to ask myself, "is this worth using
up any of the world's natural resources to reproduce/distribute/etc?" or "is this
worth having anyone else pay attention to it?"
And sometimes those white-hot impulses lead to dead-ends!
-Josh Ronsen
http://www.nd.org/jronsen
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