05-07-2015, 03:51 PM
"Art is anything you can get away with." - Marshall McLuhan (NOT Andy Warhol)
Trying to narrow art with altruistic, satanistic, Dionysianistic, hubristic,
nationalistic, and various other predjudalistic restrictions is futile.
Art will have its way.
Even the gods (except, of course, The Fates) are powerless.
Though, don't get me wrong, life is too long not to go on nattering
about art. Our every natter puts off the inevitable act of creation;
saves us from bringing yet more shame on our families.
ray
P.S. The above was a bit wordy, dale was more succinct:
"To ask all poets what poetry should be or do, is the same as asking all religionists what god is."
Trying to narrow art with altruistic, satanistic, Dionysianistic, hubristic,
nationalistic, and various other predjudalistic restrictions is futile.
Art will have its way.
Even the gods (except, of course, The Fates) are powerless.
Though, don't get me wrong, life is too long not to go on nattering
about art. Our every natter puts off the inevitable act of creation;
saves us from bringing yet more shame on our families.
ray
P.S. The above was a bit wordy, dale was more succinct:
"To ask all poets what poetry should be or do, is the same as asking all religionists what god is."
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions