Beethoven’s Advice on Being an Artist: His Touching Letter to a Little Girl Who Sent Him Fan Mail
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Beethoven’s Advice on Being an Artist: His Touching Letter to a Little Girl Who Sent Him Fan Mail
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull
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Jimmy Cerone added
I am not an artist, I’m learning. I change with the whims of people’s responses. Except I guess when I work on my little side project. So maybe it’s time to lean more into that.
True art only occurs when you’re nobody-but-yourself. This requires you to fully feel your gut feelings. Whenever you forget this, you’re basically a mediocre LLM, assembling other people’s ideas by running simple scripts on biological hardware. Art isn’t assembly.
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Stuart Evans added
What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God. Their genius then, is actually expression and not creation. That’s why great art strikes us with the shock of recognition, the wish that we had said t
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“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
- Charles Baudelaire
Michael Dean added
As Charles Baudelaire so wisely reminded us:
To reclaim your nature, you must honour it. You must trust it. And perhaps mo... See more
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.”
To reclaim your nature, you must honour it. You must trust it. And perhaps mo... See more
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Lori Abichandani added
The best artists, or the smart ones at least, tend to involve other people “because,” as Diana Glyer told me, “the life of an artist, any kind of creator, is fraught with discouragement. You need people to correct your path.”