Big Ideas
Posted by snowsera | Filed under Blogs, Music
Is great art selfish? Meaning – Art is supposed to be the purest manifestation an idea or emotion directly from one individual.
So, in it’s purest form art is made by one person for themselves to represent the idea or emotion they are feeling.
And great art touches peoples live because people recognize the purity of the art created and it can represent their same idea or emotion.
As musicians we’ve been misled to believe that we have a duty to write music that represents other peoples feelings and ideas not our own.
And because of that we’ve been making diluted art that can only be called music, not art. Art represents the self. Art is selfish.
But art is grand in it’s ability to move, connect and inspire. That is what it’s underlying purpose is once it is out of the artist and in the world.
Tags: big ideas, Ian, the future, thoughts
