(January 8, 2020 at 1:04 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(January 8, 2020 at 12:47 am)Brian37 Wrote: Sorry, but art is just that. if someone wants to mimic a pattern so what?
The worst thing anyone can do in art is copy or mimic. Nobody stands out by copying others.
Jackson Pollock and Picasso are not art works I would hang on my wall.
@Atlass, just be yourself. If you want to read others and pattern after them, that is fine.
My advice is to read everything, but in the end be you.
Are you implying there is no skill or forethought required to create poetry that affects people? That concepts like word choice, syntax, tone, line breaks, sonics, and form are not important in crafting art in written form? If so, then you’re grossly underestimating the very thing you claim to love. Give the art of poetry a little more damn credit than that, will ya?
I am saying not everyone needs to write like Shakespeare. When you go to a bar, or to a friends house do you constantly talk like that?
ART is ultimately subjective. PERIOD!
Art is simply what works. THAT IS IT.
You do not get to decide what others like.
