Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As a person who buys and collects art, the first reaction should be "Its fantastic", and the second would be "Can I live with it for 20 years?" Cheers Jayanand On Dec 9, 2007 1:04 PM, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > I know several people for whom the definition of "it is art" is "I want to > buy it, to own it". Good art is something worth possessing. > > For me, the definition of art is when I look at a photograph and think "I > wish I'd taken that photograph!". > > I think that in the world of the young, the answer to "is it art?" is > determined by how many YouTube hits it has. > > When I was a child I asked a friend of my parents, who they told me was an > artist, "what is art?". His answer has never left me: "Art is what I > paint." > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >