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All great art has two essential components, an idea, and the skills necessary to give form to the idea. All art criticism basically boils down to either the artist has the ability to do good work but lacks ideas, or has a great idea but isn't sufficiently skilled to pull it off. I like to claim that I'm the greatest interpreter of Mahler alive today. Unfortunately the music must remain in my head, since I can't play a note.
All great art has two essential components, an idea, and the skills necessary to give form to the idea. All art criticism basically boils down to either the artist has the ability to do good work but lacks ideas, or has a great idea but isn't sufficiently skilled to pull it off. I like to claim that I'm the greatest interpreter of Mahler alive today. Unfortunately the music must remain in my head, since I can't play a note.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:31 AM
2 Comments:
This reminded me of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride & Prejudice referring to her lack of musical accomplishment...
"If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient"
Wouldn't we all! LOL
(Great to see Travesty's back) :-)
OK, I am going to get a nail and hammer so that I can be sure that my comments stay on the blog. This is the third time that one of my comments disappeared into smoke.
Love this one, Travesty is one of my favorite.
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