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RE: [MUD-Dev] Historical perspective (was: dealing with foul language)



Matthew Mihaly wrote
> > Point being, anyone--heck, EVERYONE--who has an artistic 
> vision should be
> > busting their butts working to get it to commercial 
> success, IMNSHO. That's
> > the largest audience. That's the largest impact. That's 
> where art really
> > matters. Don't throw up your hands and say that 
> commercial success is
> > antithetical to art. That just makes things worse.
> 
> Hmm. That presumes that 1) The category of entity whose 
> opinion matters is
> mankind (as opposed to, say, educated mankind at a narrower 
> level), and 2)
> that the goal is to have an impact. I have a lot of respect 
> for the poet
> who writes without concern for being published or the 
> (increasingly rare)
> musician who doesn't care about selling his music. Art for 
> the sake of art
> is a noble pursuit to me.

Well said, Matt.  

I consider art to be at its core communication between the artist and the audience. Sometimes the audience is *not* the mass of humanity. It could be self. It could be future generations.  For me, I'm most attracted to talking with the billions of people alive today. As in "Hello!? There's some really important stuff going on here!!" =)

Thanks for pointing out that other artists have different goals.

-j

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Joe Andrieu 
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