Marvelous Quotation

[Peter Friedman]

This quotation comes from the beginning of a movie review by Stuart Klawans in the October 23,2006 issue of "The Nation" magazine.

"Great artists do more than express emotion; they also invent it. The difference comes through most clearly when there's no subject matter to distract you - when you listen to Beethoven and Chopin, for example, or Armstrong and Coltrane, and hear how they called up ranges of feeling that were new to the world."

[Chuck Nessa]

I don't think so.

IMHO, Besides being too simplistic, I feel it is wrong.

[Uncle Skid]

Rather than calling up "new" ranges of feelings, I would think that the best artists are those that are adept in calling up "old" feelings -- the ones that are common to all of us.

[JSngry]

What's the most recent "new feeling"? Anything new feelings come along since the stories in the Bible? And all that shit was already commonplace.

Confusing the manefestation itself with that which is being manifested is a sucker's game. Don't believe the hype.

[Tom Storer]

I think art can reveal feelings to the perceiver--and that can seem like discovery, hence a sense of "new" feelings. Of course there's nothing new under the sun, but when some of those old feelings, repressed or denied or simply taken for granted and unnoticed, appear in technicolor in the light of day... wow.

[clifford_thornton]

Invented emotion = histrionics. Great artists shy away from histrionics.

[mikelz777]

The only "new" emotions are those that already exist but are experienced by an individual for the first time or better understood so that the pre-existing emotion is felt to a greater or richer degree as to appear like or feel like a new emotion.

What Tom S. said.

Edited October 23, 2006 by mikelz777

[Chuck Nessa]

The only "new" emotions are those that already exist but are experienced by an individual for the first time or better understood so that the pre-existing emotion is felt to a greater or richer degree as to appear like or feel like a new emotion.

What Tom S. said.

Lawyer?

[mikelz777]

The only "new" emotions are those that already exist but are experienced by an individual for the first time or better understood so that the pre-existing emotion is felt to a greater or richer degree as to appear like or feel like a new emotion.

What Tom S. said.

Lawyer?

I am analytical but no, I place too much value on my soul.

Edited October 23, 2006 by mikelz777