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Re: [Digital BW] Re: ART and LIFE

2001-10-26 by Tim Spragens

The act of creation without an audience is an act of self-gratification. The great beauty of art is 
that it can impregnate long after the creator is dead.

Tim

> I completely agree with Todd on this one.  
> 
> I feel the art is in the creation, not the exhibition, not the
> critique, not the write-up in a journal or gallery brochure or museum
> catalog.  The art is in that moment (sometimes a very protracted
> moment) when the artist is creating something.  
> 
> The result of that creative energy...what we see as "art" or a work of
> art is a sharing and extension of the concept of the artist.  The
> artist may or may not care at that point....whether we "get" the
> point.  
> 
> 

--
Tim Spragens
http://www.borderless-photos.com
&
http://www.borderless-photos.de

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