Sunday, December 28, 2008
Tiny differences a face beautiful or ugly. Tiny differences make a guitar shape beautiful or ugly too. Or uncomfortable to hold, or play. Those tiny differences however do not mean the same thing to different people. An artist can try to please the masses, those who see things much the same as each other in an attempt to become financially successful. But then the artist is not expressing his or her self, but the perceived notion of what others see. An artist must pursue his own paths,or he is not at all an artist, but a fraud, a cheat, a person deceiving himself.
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The Path is often laced with many obstacles:
ReplyDeletethe weather gods throw us a snow flurry or the economy forces us to produce crap so we can eat! I am discovering that this "art stuff" is a lot of work! Construction was so easy: a foundation, a floor, the walls. There was an order, a timely fashion and method: we had blueprints and a construction schedule to keep.
When I apply these same characteristis of construction it is easier for me to "stay on the path." Yet, as I get older I am reminded of the quote: "young men gather their materials to build a stairway to the stars, while old men gather their materials to build an outhouse!" jerry
Although it's not in the artist's best interest to try to please the masses it is part of his job to speak for the masses with no voice. People ask the musician how he could write a song about the plight of the commercial fisherman when he has never been a fisherman. But if he doesn't write it, who will?
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