eddieblz wrote:Most of the time if not almost all the time an artist will never know if anything he/her has created will take on a life of it's own...... see it.
By 'life of its own' I was thinking more along the lines of say..
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Everybody creates something but accidentally destroys it then they may spend an age trying to get it back – might be picture, a friendship/ music/trust/water from a pond (I am not a serious person)
This thread for instance is a roundabout way of acknowledging there are great works out there in nomans land that have been drowned out and will never see the light of day,
the creator lonely and discouraged.
My little'ol creative act here is attempting to coax people out of the shadow world –
What I am doing is payback - an unknown voice on a failing radio gave me heart once.
I may have sown a seed and it may take on a life of its own or it may not -
I move on - coz everything else is vanity.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself.
Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Homer Simpson - [Not] M.Aurelius actually