“The only artists I have known, who are perfectly delightful, are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
— spoken by Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Some are artists, others, themselves, are art.
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Well said, Cristian. Of course, it always make me wonder about those artists who seemingly manage to juggle both… Emphasis on “seemingly.”
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I’d say it’s just an illusion.
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They say, though, that there is nothing worse than someone who has an artist’s whims without any of an artist’s talents.
Oscar Wilde is one of my favorite writers. Thank you, Ryan, for reminding me.
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Agreed. Moreover, the highly subjective nature of art makes it easy for just about anyone to wear the hat and play artist.
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Exactly!
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