Doing art badly ... that's one of my favourite topics and a rant I can do for hours on any street corner you could put me on, anywhere in the world.
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Right. The basic form is this. Art is a human birthright. Everyone has the right to dance, sing, sculpt, paint, write, carve, cast bronze as badly as they want to.
Doing art badly ... that's one of my favourite topics and a rant I can do for hours on any street corner you could put me on, anywhere in the world.
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Right. The basic form is this. Art is a human birthright. Everyone has the right to dance, sing, sculpt, paint, write, carve, cast bronze as badly as they want to.
Conversely, everyone has the right to not like that and walk away and find something better.
The greatest tragedy in my books is to brainwash children and people that you have to study first for God alone knows how many decades BEFORE you are "allowed" to ... (sing, dance, write, cast bronze, paint ...).
This is BULLSHIT.
It leads to wasted incarnations, art not being done, brainwashed forms of so called art that have no life left in them at all, people who once loved art but now have been broken in the processes and the vast majority of human beings thinking art is not for them.
This idea that you have to be "good" at (whatever) before you get to do it, in public or at all, has to be challenged.
It has to be more than challenged.
It has to be ENDED.
And people have to be brave and stand up and do their art as badly as they please to make the point and lay out a different role modelling altogether.
It has to be understood that whatever is considered at this time to be "good enough" to be "allowed to" is nothing but a time bound fashion and an ancient corset that forces the young ones to endlessly repeat the old, over and over again.
There may be places where it is a good idea to delay the onset of human expression for decades but art is not one of them.
