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[adamantlyardent]

There is a cruel comfort in knowing that trying to talk to self-declared artists is, regardless of realm, an exercise in patience quite hard to master. I desperately do not care if one has crafted a pinwheel out of garbage, nor shall I be inclined to call it art, thank you very much.

Dare I even send this thought into this void? Perhaps I'll just be inadvertently drawing more of these sorts, eager to fuel some unconscious need to be offended and fight for their honor; it seems to be the way out on the street, in the magazines, and everywhere else...

There must be truly something to the notion of being "spoiled for choice" -- this world seems the absolute perfect example of it. Do parameters of quality even MATTER anymore when there is just so damn much of anything and no one can seem to agree at all?

Sure, why not. The ink you accidentally dripped onto your shoe is now "art."

Gods help me. Rather, someone else just kindly mark a map for me so I know how to avoid these weird avenues in the future and spare us all.

Comments

[consulinchief]

Well... then what defines art?

[adamantlyardent]

Ugh. That question is so pointless even when it's the point that even thinking about answering it is giving me a headache.
CLEARLY it's a matter of taste in the end, isn't it?

[consulinchief]

[He chuckles, even if she can't hear him.]

That was where I was going, yes.

But I will admit I've never understood like placing a dead bird on an opened book and calling it art.

[adamantlyardent]

Disgusting. As if this world has any right to make lofty commentary on the desolation of nature with the way things work around here...

[consulinchief]

There is certainly room for improvement.

[He knew that before he was taken to another world, but living in ni no kuni cemented it for him.]

Are you an artist, Cecelia?

[adamantlyardent]

Not with any real glimmer of talent, no. I can paint trees and rocks and that's about it.

[consulinchief]

Say, has anyone ever shown you Rob Boss videos, by any chance?

I love him.

[adamantlyardent]

I'm not familiar, no.

[consulinchief]

[Roland sends a link.]

He once said that “Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.”

[adamantlyardent]

[a delay, as she takes a cursory glimpse at this link.

...what is this weirdo's hair? and this positively anemic music...]

That seems quite the broad statement to make. Fitting, I suppose, given his instruments.

[consulinchief]

He also said: "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

[Someone is a fan.]