Re: conlangs as art (was: Re: Wikipedia:Verifiability - Mailing lists as sources

on 2/27/08 10:37 AM, Rick Harrison at rick@HARRISON.NET wrote:
>
{...}
> Can beholding someone else's conlang produce the same intensity of feeling as
> music or
> cinema? How much of that is due to growing up in a culture that values or does
> not value
> certain artforms? And mentioned flower arranging as an art/craft of the less
> moving
> category, but if we had grown up in Japan a century or two ago, maybe we
> _could_ be
> moved to tears or joy by a great work of ikebana.
I am moved to tears of joy when I see circuit-bent Pikachus...


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    "To live is to scrounge, taking what you can in order to survive. So,
since living is scrounging, the result of our efforts is to amass a pile
of rubbish."
                            - Chuang Tzu/Zhuangzi, China, 4th Century BCE


    "The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random."
                            - Heraclitus, Greece, 5th Century BCE


    Ars imitatur Naturam in sua operatione.
    [Latin > "Art is the imitation of Nature in her manner of operation."]


    " jinsei to iu mono wa, kinchou na geijyutsu to ieru deshou "
    [Japanese > "one can probably say that 'life' is a precious artform"]


    Absolument n'import quoi est art.

Der Abfall der Welt dient¹Mir zur Kunst.
³The waste of the world becomes my art.²
~ ­ Kurt Schwitters, circa 1935,
inscribed on the back of a collage titled Fur Bieleny

    "Art should be something that liberates your soul." - Keith Haring