Brilliant article. Something I needed to read. It's the ego isn't it? Even we do recognize the ego's role in all our ills we still can't overcome it and end up glorifying it.
I know an alarming number of women like that. They are kind of a dime a dozen but somehow believe themselves to be special and courageous when they act out and do drastic things. I've been tempted to behave that way myself, a few times, until I realized I was being a self-indulgent idiot.
I will say in my own experience that art and the artists who made it mean a lot to me. I started art in no small part due to Rembrandt. It is a form of immortality. However, he is not here to enjoy it as it were, and yet it still brings enjoyment to others. So maybe the trick is to do or make something great for the sake of it. He made art because he loved to do it and it shows. Maybe I'm getting hung up on details of your post though.
Brilliant article. Something I needed to read. It's the ego isn't it? Even we do recognize the ego's role in all our ills we still can't overcome it and end up glorifying it.
I know an alarming number of women like that. They are kind of a dime a dozen but somehow believe themselves to be special and courageous when they act out and do drastic things. I've been tempted to behave that way myself, a few times, until I realized I was being a self-indulgent idiot.
I will say in my own experience that art and the artists who made it mean a lot to me. I started art in no small part due to Rembrandt. It is a form of immortality. However, he is not here to enjoy it as it were, and yet it still brings enjoyment to others. So maybe the trick is to do or make something great for the sake of it. He made art because he loved to do it and it shows. Maybe I'm getting hung up on details of your post though.