Ququuluru wrote:Jordan~ wrote:I'm not advocating artistic isolationism. My only point is that purity of vision requires a lack of concern for the nature of the reception of its products. For art to say something new and something unique, for it to expand the apparatus of human thought, it has to be made without an audience in mind. If it's for someone, it already has a place in the world; there is a thing that it must be that is for certain people. I'm not saying that there are purely original ideas, which would be preposterous, but rather that we have a near boundless capacity for metaphorical conceptions of the world, and that in order to realise some more of that capacity, we need to express ourselves without concern for the popularity of what we're expressing.
Jordan,
I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your comments.
What you are saying is partially true, but not quite completely. Purity of vision does not depend on the mind as much as it does on the spirit. Also, the attitude of a performer towards the audience resides mainly in the spirit, not the mind. Purity of vision follows from purity of spirit, which indeed does demand utmost vigilance of integrity to the authentic individual self, but never to the detriment of the individual's concern for others. In fact, one hallmark of spiritual purity could perhaps be said to be a certain increase of concern for the well-being of others over concern for the own individual self. This does not imply a pandering nor an 'altruistic egotism', but rather a sympathetic (as opposed to antagonistic) attitude towards others, springing from a deep sense of the actual truth and reality of the spiritual oneness of all Being.
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