looksgood opened this issue on Jul 25, 2003 ยท 57 posts
dialyn posted Fri, 25 July 2003 at 9:57 AM
Everyone can make graphics. Not everyone can create art. Everyone can slap a naked Vicky in a temple. Very few Vickys in the temple are worth looking at. Nudes are predictable, easy, guaranteed hits. Doing something creative, original, challenging, and risk losing views is what artists do. I may not be an artist, but I know art stops me in my tracks and demands me to look at it. Most of the naked Vickys are a yawn and a passing click on to something more interesting. Non-artists will take the easy path to getting attention. Real artists create because they can't help it, even if there's no audience. But of course most people will do their temple dance around the naked Vicky and pretend they are doing something original. There's nothing wrong with copying what everyone else does...but don't call it art. That's just paint by numbers in a different container.