Thursday, July 24, 2003
Think of "art" as an artist's "longtime companion."
If you keep inviting an artist into your home without inviting the art, the artist will eventually recognize this as an indication of disapproval, of not accepting or trying to understand what makes an artist's life worth living. Artists don't suffer FOR their art - how can one suffer from such a source of joy? The suffering is caused by indifference.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
If you keep inviting an artist into your home without inviting the art, the artist will eventually recognize this as an indication of disapproval, of not accepting or trying to understand what makes an artist's life worth living. Artists don't suffer FOR their art - how can one suffer from such a source of joy? The suffering is caused by indifference.
