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From: "Colin Lewis"
QED
QED again
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:-) Colin thinks I'm making his point for him.
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Either one is preoccupied with "rules" or one attempts innovation - it's
hard to see how one can do both.
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Very simply. One first learns "the rules." (I hate that term) and then one
uses them as reference points from which to be creative, somewhat created,
wildly creative or cubist.
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Art, Andy, is a creative endeavour by definition.
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Thank you, Colin. ;-)
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Sure, one must learn
techniques - and the better thechnique is taught, the better it will be
learned. The better technique is learned, the better it an be applied. But
without the freedom of thought, the desire to innovate, the determination to
express one's own emotions and make one's own ceative statements, any
endeavour will remain, at best, at the level of craft, and will never
achieve the status of art.
Viva lka revolición!
Colin
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One must first learn the craft, then one can create the art. What you're
observing here in the States is the constant need to revisit the basics (the
dogma, the rules, whatever) because few learn them well enough the first 2
or 3 or 6 times around. That's all.

Kind regards,
Andy Rutledge
zone 8, Texas

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