The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84083   Message #1552328
Posted By: John Hardly
29-Aug-05 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: What If There was no audience?
Subject: RE: What If There was no audience?
just to be clear...

When I say that I think that the strongest impetus to create art is to share it, I did not define the intended "audience", nor how big the intended "audience", nor what the mechanism for the sharing might be. I wasn't rying to imply that everyone wants to sell their art or be a professional.

And I would say that, though (as I said before) there may be the rare person who does not have "sharing" as a goal -- of that small sub-group of artists, I'm still betting that sharing their art is still part of their fantasy life.