Quote:I think when the musician wrote the notes of his symphony and then listened to it and liked it , he liked what he was hearing , cuz his brain was sophisticated enough to understand the depth, the consistency and the beauty in his music , and so only the intelligent ones will understand that music and see how great it is , kinda like if you encode a letter so that only the ones with the decoding mechanism can read it .
Do you think the same or not ?
Not. This smacks of, 'My work is great, you're just too stupid to appreciate it,' which is utter rubbish. It isn't the job of the audience to understand the artist, it is the job of the artist to make himself understood.
Suppose I were to record myself thumping a dog with a metal dustbin lid. This is clearly great art. If you don't get it, it's your lookout, not mine. This applies to ALL forms of 'art'. Some Brummie feckwit welds random bits of metal together in no recognizable shape and calls it 'sculpture'. Some other knuckle-dragger writes a truly execrable piece of fiction and insists that it is simply too highbrow for the rest of the world to recognize as a work of genius.
By happy chance, Mozart, Shakespeare, Bach, Shaw, Michelangelo and their ilk were clearly pleased by what they did, and made it accessible for the rest of us.
If you can't communicate genius, you aren't one.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
