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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rick Julian who wrote (80684)	6/2/2000 3:37:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I wonder if what the artist intends really matters at all after the work leaves them. Lots of artists compare their art works to children- and even though you give birth to children, and raise them- they develop their own personalities and destinies that their parents frequently never imagine. Do you think art works are like that? I do. I've had people read my poems and find TOTALLY different meanings in them from what I intended. And it used to bother me- but now I love it.

To: Rick Julian who wrote (80684)	6/2/2000 3:39:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Your post reminds me of some wonderful watercolors I saw by a Japanese boy who was, I believe, profoundly retarded - in which case, I doubt that he had anything we would call an idea when he painted. Unless I've got the memory confused, and the boy was autistic, which doesn't mean he was retarded, as many very intelligent people are autistic. But I think he was retarded. Maybe you know who I am talking about, I think I saw reproductions of his paintings in Smithsonian magazine.