Comments on: White Denim – Fits – Album Review http://citizendick.org/2009/07/15/white-denim-fits-album-review/ a cleveland/brooklyn based music blog, new music reviews, live music reviews, fashion, art, and walrus pelts Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: brian http://citizendick.org/2009/07/15/white-denim-fits-album-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1873 brian Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:18:34 +0000 http://citizendick.org/?p=4682#comment-1873 As soon as you take the tape out of the garage and put it in somebody else's hands, you've sold out. I'm with the folks who create something beautiful and then destroy it before it has a chance to be polluted by the world. Conceiving any art with a market in mind seems to be about as far away as you can get from the legitimate impulse to create; at that point it becomes simply commerce and is fucking depressing. Lastly, the Mona Lisa would be infinitely more beautiful if nobody ever saw it, if it only existed as an ideal in our imaginations. I'd even go so far as to argue that the number of people that stare at it gape-mouthed deflate its quality. Like the dude who looks at a Rothko and says, "that ain't art, I could do that," folks who gaze at things that are accepted masterworks could be prone to devaluing it. See: coffee mugs with that broad's grille emblazoned upon them. So, I'm in the other camp on this one. As soon as you take the tape out of the garage and put it in somebody else’s hands, you’ve sold out. I’m with the folks who create something beautiful and then destroy it before it has a chance to be polluted by the world. Conceiving any art with a market in mind seems to be about as far away as you can get from the legitimate impulse to create; at that point it becomes simply commerce and is fucking depressing.

Lastly, the Mona Lisa would be infinitely more beautiful if nobody ever saw it, if it only existed as an ideal in our imaginations. I’d even go so far as to argue that the number of people that stare at it gape-mouthed deflate its quality. Like the dude who looks at a Rothko and says, “that ain’t art, I could do that,” folks who gaze at things that are accepted masterworks could be prone to devaluing it. See: coffee mugs with that broad’s grille emblazoned upon them.

So, I’m in the other camp on this one.

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