If I have got rid of my ego, I won't be tweeting.
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Relationship? Can you expand on that?
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Creativity is an intrinsic human phenomenon that finds varied expression through different forms/disciplines/activities of relating with existence. As Henry Miller said "Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant; in becoming an end it defeats itself".
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It's a myth that an artist works for themselves. They work through themselves, if they are a true artist. They become conduits of something, they serve something bigger. Selfish art is not art at all; it's a desperate attempt to establish an ego as the creator which it never is.
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...the Henry Miller is strong in this one
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Always. He's my favorite.
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We forget that the artist as an individual expression is a recent phenomenon in human history. It was not always so. Art was once symbiotic with existence, an expression of community, tradition, a collection of relationships, a function of the group, and so on.
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"Symbiotic with existence." We're meant to do it. Art is a selfish endeavour because searching for Enlightenment is selfish. We practice art because we rediscover we're supposed to practice art—if indeed we are
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If you have created art you have a deep feeling that while you facilitated it, it doesn't belong to you, not entirely. It's like a child, you have to let it go into the world where it belongs. Part of you goes with it wherever it does. If there's no let-go there's no art.
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