Holding to an ideal is as hard as breaking an addiction. In fact, the two skills are complimentary; to do one at all gives us the confidence to do the other. Very few people are hip enough to pay attention to it, but those who are realize that qualia revealsContinue Reading
It is fortunate for us, however, that Nature is so imperfect, as otherwise we should have no art at all — Oscar Wilde How true, how true — but alas, art is, truly, less perfect than nature. When are we going to learn that we can imagine the ideal, butContinue Reading
Generally it is the role of art to expose the degradations and depravities of whatever culture in which it might be created. Really, it is a misnomer to produce “art” that champions any culture, no matter how minor or exploited – that role is for obsequious sycophants and toadies, notContinue Reading
It is not a novel thought, I know – the charm of the old, sweet love songs, is well known, and it is easily dismissed as mere nostalgia – but in the context of today’s highly addictive landscape, it resonates in important ways. It occurred to me that the oldContinue Reading
There is more subtlety and more nuance in real human relationships than in any work created by an artist (by artist, I am not referring to pop artists or celebrities, but creators whose art most people don’t “get”). One might even suggest that artists lack a sense for human artifice,Continue Reading