thread: 2005-11-22 : A Seriously Social Issue
On 2005-11-28, Matthijs Holter wrote:
You know, not to be a cynic or anything, but I think... if you follow Ron's thoughts ("Now for the final conundrum: what will you sacrifice to sustain it?" - or, "How far are you willing to go to get what you want?" ;) ) - it's pretty clear that we're nowhere near being artists.
At least, artists in the "suffering visionary" aspect.
Okay, so most of us have probably had an acquaintance or two who didn't get invited to the next campaign because they didn't play the way we liked. But has anybody done stuff like... well, starving for their art? Getting so lost in what they do that they lose contact with the world? All these things that Real Artists are supposed to do?
I mean, if you really burn for something, you're supposed to do stuff like that, right?
And in a sense, of course, the worth of something is measured in what you sacrifice to achieve it.
This makes MB go "I disagree"
Creating art because you can't NOT create art != dramatic tropes used to stereotype how tortured a soul "must" be to create art. There's some weird Puritanical warping there about how it can't be whole and healthy and socially functional if it's also bringing forth a vision from you artistic core. I know a whole heck of a lot of passionate artists who are not tropes.
