“ART IS A COLLECTION OF BROKEN PEOPLE BREAKING OTHERS TO FIX THEMSELVES.”
Sounds like you read Laurel K. Hamilton. I mean, i HOPE she’s getting some therapy from her writing…
“We are taught that artists… make life worth living.”
IIRC, I was taught that ART makes life worth living. Whether you produce it or consume it, or in some rare instances, critique it.
"We are told that creativity is the highest expression of the human spirit.”
It’s AN expression of human spirit. But some days, so is coffee.
“We are told that Art is a gift.”
Meh. Most of my art classes taught me that it’s a skill. Writing, painting, sketching, dancing, interpretive underwater basket weaving… No one’s born able to paint the Sistine Chapel.
“Every brushstroke, lyric, film, and work of art exists to satisfy the artist's primal desires for money, fame, sex, power, revenge, or the desperate need to self-medicate and control their own reality.”
Hmmm. I write because I have to. I don’t see money, fame, sex, power from my writing. I have sometimes made a joke for revenge. I have no idea what you mean bty self-medicating my reality.
"…this book strips away the mythology to reveal the cold mechanical truth:
The Artist is the Enemy.”
Ah. People keep calling your ChatGPT art ‘crap,’ don’t they?
“You will discover why the gap between the Creative Visionary and the Genocidal Tyrant is zero.”
I just keep thinking of creative people who’ve toured Trump’s homes and found no art, no music, no literature… Just price tags.
"Why your favorite song isn't healing you — it's colonizing you.”
My favorite song is a fugue… I’ve never thought of it as ‘healing.’ More like penance.
“The Artist doesn't want to connect with you.”
Frankly, as someone who produces things that could be called ‘art,’ the consumer is the least of my motivations. I do take a moment or two to make sure that my work can be understood, but I don’t sit down and think of an idea that’ll make me popular with a certain demographic.