Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I learned to like mushrooms and pesto. Nobody taught me. It just happened. Maybe someday I like rusty metal fragments in the shape of sandwich leftovers. But it'll be my own doing. No one is going to "teach me how to like it". If it happens, it happens. Art is in the eye of the beholder. If you teach them to behold, they haven't learned a thing. I learn all of the time. But it's from inside me. Not from someone who thinks they have all the answers. Technical stuff, I learn from books, experiments, trial & error. Art stuff is inside me. Not in some book. One day I look at something and say "I like that" when I didn't give it a second thought the day before. People who think they can quantify what someone else should like/feel are charlatans. I'm happy making my own way when it comes to inner feelings about art. And I don't mind talking about it. If you and/or others think I'm stipid, then so be it. Thank you, Jim At 06:05 PM 4/11/98 -0400, you wrote: >Kudos for having the humility to express your feelings in a humorous way. >However I would just like to ask you this. Did you always like the things >you like now? Didn't you learn to like some things and dislike others >somewhere on the journey to adulthood? And when did you stop learning or >acquiring tastes? I would be afraid to make the statements you make in this >posting. Because I'm certain that in this great big wonderful world we >inhabit there's something I haven't yet learned to appreciate and I'd hate >to die without having done so. > >It seems to me that the ability to learn new likes and dislikes, to cast off >old attachments when they've served their purpose and take on new ones is >what keeps us alive and growing. And in case you haven't heard, if you stop >growing that's equivalent to death and decay. I'd advise you to read >Goethe's 'FAUST'. > >Bruce S.