Daniel_

Playing Devil's Advocate for a moment - do we like them because we know them, or are they known because they're best?

In the entire history of human art, there are a few hundred artists that have public brand name recognition at most and these few vary from culture to culture - there are artist I'm sure in Asia or Arabia who are as famous to their area as Picasso is to Europeans.

My point is, if all the ones we know were burned, would we find others that sparked the same emotion and creativity?

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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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