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Originally Posted by Halx
mm, by your logic, you're trying to answer the age old question of "if a tree falls in the woods..." How would we know they're artists unless we see their work?
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No, I'm not.
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we don't have to know they are artists. Art, music, literature do not need to be experienced by more than the person who created them to be art, music and literature. Even lying in a drawer, a closet or the city dump they are what they were created to be.
Just like light bulbs.
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Something only exists if it has a witness.
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The artist witnesses. Why do they need someone else's approval?
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And who said anything about not caring?
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I took from some of your earlier comments that you weren't very interested in art. If I read too much into it, then I apologize.
Art is occurring and re-occurring around us at all times - sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally. You may call this a hippie concept, but if you seriously believe that then you are missing so much, and I grieve for the fact that you live in a city like NY and you don't see it. What is art but an attempt to capture visions, concepts and feelings and interpret them in a way that you are
driven to do? It makes no difference if 'you could do that' (not the literal you) because, like roachboy said, 'you' didn't. It doesn't matter if you like it, because it isn't necessary for someone else to relate to it. Art is not a social phenomenon unless that is the expressed intention of the artist - and sometimes it is. Art (the kind that winds up in museums) is a personal expression and it comes in limitless forms.