01-19-2016, 02:05 AM
Quote:rowens the boat wrote: "Why do poems, short stories, novels and plays matter? What value do they have? Why do you write? If you hope to be able to write something of value, what motivates you or convinces you of this need for value in literature? There are many reasons: aesthetic, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, political, just for fun, out of boredom, need for attention, need to accomplish something, need for admiration, competition, struggle, need to emulate. But what real value?"
If you take the art from the human, all that is left is the brute, that and an artist has no choice but to do so: like an energy build up that has to be released and yes, not unlike an orgasm. Sex with the divine.
dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.