On the other hand, we bring to the work whatever we've experieneced
(even if we choose not to talk about it) and however that's changed
us. If anything, art that matters is the recording of changes large
and small. And not always for the good--think of late
Wordsworth--though usually.
Which is not the same as prescribing material want.
Mark
At 10:46 AM 4/24/2009, you wrote:
>This may be on a tangent from the possibility of being corrupted by a
>grant, but I found this comment by Marianne Faithful in response to
>that question: 'did suffering help you as an artist'? She says, 'I
>don't think it helped me. I can't tell for sure. It's possible , but
>mostly when I look back at that time I just see it as a waste. Drugs
>caused me to waste a lot of time and caused me a lot of unnecessary
>pain.'
>
>She goes on, 'I consider myself an artist and suffering has nothing to
>do with it.'
>
>To which I say, Yea, verily.
>
>Doug
>Douglas Barbour
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>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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>Latest books:
>Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>Wednesdays'
>http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
>There's the wind and the rain
>And the mercy of the fallen
>Who say they have no claim to know what's right
> Dar Williams
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