It is Art because it is alive. It proves that, if you and I are to create at
all, we must create with today and
let all the Art schools and Medicis in the universe go hang themselves with
yesterday’s rope. It teaches us that we have made a profound error in trying to learn Art,
since whatever Art stands for is whatever cannot be
learned. Indeed, the Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has
learned, in order to know himself; (...)
(...)"to
become an Artist” means nothing: whereas to become alive, or one’s self, means
everything.
E. E. Cummings, A Miscellany
Revised
