• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I think if you replaced “great artist” with “someone you greatly respect” it’d be universally applicable.

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      21 hours ago

      A great artist demonstrates that he sees, thinks and acts with greater clarity and finesse than the normal people. He is a man and they are mice, relatively speaking. It’s an objective superiority.

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        21 hours ago

        Was Richard Dadd seeing, thinking, and acting with greater clarity when he murdered his father, believing he was the devil?

        When Gericault surrounded himself with baskets of severed heads and limbs, many of which were in advanced stages of decay, and kept the severed head of a man from the guillotine on the roof of his house, was he acting with greater clarity than normal people?

        Very objectively superior.

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          21 hours ago

          Humility is something commonly missing from the normal person. They may not know it, And they definitely didn’t see it. And they can’t create it either. But they sure have some strong opinions about it. An intense arrogance despite the vast ignorance. Now that’s common.

          How hard is it to say “I don’t know”? Maybe rotting heads are quite nice.