Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

 --- Sally Caves skrzypszy:

> Art is useful when it soothes and pleases the artist.  Consider art therapy.
> My mother is an artist, and a teacher who teaches art to senior citizens and
> to children.  The artist is materially and socially rewarded (a different
> concept) when it is lauded by institutions and venues that display and
> critique his art.  Our "institution and venue" is our listserv.  Many of us
> have felt rewarded by the admiration of the numbers of people on the list
> who have seen and liked our artlangs and said so.  We are certainly sharing
> what we do here.  It is a small venue, but a valid one.  Let's get away from
> this pompous notion that art is only useful when it has prestige.
My sentiments exactly.
Let me add one thing: being a great artist and being a famous artist is not
necessarily the same. In order to establish one's name, one has to do things
that many great artists don't want to do, like investing time in maintaining
the right contacts, and making aesthetical compromises.
I know some great musicians who are completely unknown for the simple reason
that they don't want to famous; they prefer to lead a quiet life, without
travelling over the whole world and making recordings everywhere.

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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