We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.