Nature is not in a business to produce art without man who is a part of nature, but nature is a source of aesthetics sensed only by man as a curtain organized information. Boris Shoshensky
---------- Original Message ---------- From: ARMANDO BAEZA <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "You must learn to choose the truth before aesthetic preferences". (Auden) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:44:47 -0700 (PDT) I don't think nature is in the business of producing aesthetics I thought that was left up to the mind of man mando ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Mon, May 3, 2010 6:20:53 PM Subject: Re: "You must learn to choose the truth before aesthetic preferences". (Auden) In a message dated 5/3/10 7:05:37 PM, [email protected] writes: > Does that mean that a work of art should never distort or obscure > reality? > No. It means that the thing itself has within it its own aesthetic and that you shouldn't cram your own taste onto it without considering what the thing is. The practioner of "cute" shouldn't make a Cruxifiction because "cute" doesn't provide adequate resources for such a portrayal. KAte Sullivan
