Posted by Zo on April 8, 2002, at 4:54:17
In reply to Re: Civility vs. Propriety – Words, posted by Shar on April 8, 2002, at 3:24:30
Shar,
What kind of contempt do you suppose you express when you compare what a writer/artist does to picking your nose?
There's this misapprehension about creative people. We're all ego, we do everything we do just to put the spotlight on ourselves.
When what I know is that artists are the people who stand by their words, themselves, and try to communicate what it is they see. *That's* the urge, the drive. . . to show you my little piece of heaven. Or hell. But it's about the farthest thing from showing off. More like very risky, very vulnerable.
And hey, there IS no special dispensation. If you're an artist or writer, you have to grind out your own dispensation from a world which grants NONE---and then pays to buy your books, to see your plays. Pays to get your message back again.
I'd like to think that my work is something more than a "need." My guess is if you knew how bloody f**kin' hard it is, to make anything authentic at all, never mind to then get it seen or read or heard, you'd sing a different tune.
Just thought your posts on this had unnecessary jabs, not required to get your point across. Unless, of course, your point is that you are contemptous of artists. . ..
Zo
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