How about the word "misdirection"?
Lies we tell ourselves are different that the sleight of hand we offer
others, with a wink and a nudge, to say things without being held
accountable.
Art usually (not always) falls into the latter category. Artists who
lie to themselves usually get a day job.
Tory
On Oct 18, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky wrote:
Peter and Steve
I have heard Peter’s quote before ( I suspect Picasso was not the
first, just the most prominent ) and other slightly different
extensions,
“Assemble a man’s lies and then you will learn what he values”
“First deceive yourself then you can deceive others”
“We comfort with lies those terrified by the truth”
“Bad liars have no inkling of the truth”
Perhaps it has never been easy to be truthful in society so we
mastered the special art of lying through our teeth. If you have to
lie about something it forces you to have a very firm picture of the
truth in your mind or you may make a mistake.
Writing under oppressive regimes has created marvellous fiction such
as Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita.
Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
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On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: October 17, 2010 10:10 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Art is a Lie
Peter -
Well said...
and in a single short paragraph with a single eloquent quote...
- Steve
A’propos Ten Best Texts as fiction. I’m sure no one at Friam holds
to the techno-barbarian view that nothing valuable can be gained
from fiction. In my opinion the important human values can be
illuminated only by fiction. After all, the King James Bible (1611)
is about the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
When told that his work was “untrue”, Pablo* agreed, remarking: “Art
is a lie that helps us see the truth”.
This seems a valuable insight.
*Pablo Picasso (1887 – 1968): Sp., Fr. painter. Developed cubism
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