First rate does not mean your any good - it just means you rank On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:17 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Problem: I want to point out that much of this discussion has taken > place on the news part of aesthetics on line and that we are not > sup[posed to do this, as people subscribe to the news list because they > don't want the discussion. If there is any further discussion on this > subject make sure that the address "[email protected]" does > not appear in the address part of your email. The address part is the > part that is headed by "to". > > And I don't think being "first rate" has anything to do with being > able to see the value of something you don't like and wouldn't do and > still being able to look critically at your own work. > Kate Sullivan > -----Original Message----- > From: saul ostrow <[email protected]> > To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 3:50 pm > Subject: Re: Scott Fitzgerald quote and "the definition of an artist" > > "The test of a first-rate artist is the ability to appreciate the work > of > another artist that is > unlike their own while at the same time and still retain the ability to > be > critical of their own work. As such they > should, for example, be able to see the genius in others and while being > determined to question their own." > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:17 PM, ARMANDO BAEZA <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Maybe one who stays in balanced between >> the yin and the yang in creativity. >> ab >> >> >> ______________________________**__ >> From: Tom McCormack <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Sent: Friday, >> June 8, 2012 11:09 AM >> Subject: Scott Fitzgerald quote and "the definition of >> an artist" >> >> My son Dan is a film director and screenwriter in Hollywood. He >> puts the >> following question to me. >> >> ". . .Do you know of any famous >> modification of Fitzgerald's quote -- >> "The test of a first-rate intelligence >> is the ability to hold two opposed >> ideas in mind at the same time and still >> retain the ability to function"? >> I have a vague recollection of somebody's >> adjusting that quote to talk about >> the definition of an artist. >> Does this ring >> any bell? If it was in some movie, I'll drop it." >> >> In typical father fashion, >> I lumbered Dan with all sorts of reservations about >> the FSF line (which, in >> fact, Dan shared) but I admitted it did have a certain >> fuzzy provocativeness >> (much that's provocative in art depends on an element of >> fuzziness). >> >> But I >> had no recollection of the line's being altered to talk about the >> definition >> of an artist. Can any members help me (and Dan)? >> >> Tom McCormack >> ASA >> New York >> City >> >> >> > > -- > Saul Ostrow > *Crtical Voices* > 21STREETPROJECTS > 162 West 21 Street > NYC, NY 10011 > > -- Saul Ostrow *Crtical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS 162 West 21 Street NYC, NY 10011
