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To: Enam Luf who wrote (605081)	8/17/2004 8:05:51 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

Ultimately art is just a human expression, just like breathing and talking. So whether we enjoy it, it really is an outgrowth of its maker. It is as if the artist exists, some people see him/her and then gather around to watch. It is a wonderful thing, really, because even this "watching" is an expression as natural as breathing. I just saw "The Hours" a few days ago. Loved the film, though I didn't find it very inobling. I enjoyed the empathy it evoked and how it tried to communicate the different (yet similar) ways the three women attempted to deal with the same problem. In a sense I was watching art inside of art. The film, though contrived, got across the lives, the natural expressions of people responding to and within their circumstances. That is really the whole thing. But this is a bit off the beaten path. The issue here concerns the means by which art is supported. We have no natural right to dishonorably garner support by tricking people into it or by taking their lives in the form of money. If they wish to watch our expression and we wish them to see, then they ought to watch of their own choice. You see, the choice to watch is a natural expression that combines with the art and the these combined expressions form a larger expression. That is what happens in a concert. It is why two concerts, with the same music, can be so different. It needs to come about freely, not by trickery or force.