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   musteryou

   November 4, 2014

   It’s very painful to have to live on the surface of things — at the level of appearance, as artists do — unless you are very, very good at it.

   That was a problem I had for a long time — trying to use art as a vehicle, when really I had a much more important message, which was so terribly deep, scary and profound, I couldn’t get to it myself. I had to work on it for many years.

   And then people would say, “Well you entertained me X amount or Y amount,” and this used to frustrate me, and I’d become ever more shrill because I realized I hadn’t been able to get to my point.

   In the final analysis, trying to use art as a medium of communication was a mistake, because art is all about the surface and needs the surface and the accumulation of knowledge is different from the communication of art.

   So let us say I mistook myself for an artist for a while, but that was never what I was.

   Here is more on a topic we discussed here on this blog recently:

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      musteryou

      November 4, 2014

      It’s really strange someone would downvote an entry where I am down on myself. Really stange indeed. I pronounce myself to be an idiot who wastes time (my own and that of others) and people downvote this. Is it because even acknowledging certain facts is considered unsightly in Oprah Winfrey’s America?

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   musteryou

   November 4, 2014

   And it’s amazing and disturbing when one finds oneself becoming very, very shrill and one doesn’t know how to stop that. I thought if I amassed enough people on my side, through art, that might be the solution. But. Just recently I have been reading Nietzsche’s GAY SCIENCE, where he takes on Wagner for …well, being an artist, (and contaminating himself with philosophy), and you do see much more starkly the limits of art, which is to carry people along without understand why or how you are doing so (this is according to Nietzsche). Philosophy does something else. It is mistrustful. And seemingly you can’t be one thing whilst trying to be another.

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   NancyP

   November 4, 2014

   Gotta hand it to you, Clarissa, you have the knack of finding strange stories.

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      Clarissa

      November 4, 2014

      I have an ENORMOUS blog roll. 🙂

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