Man Struggling With Umbrella / Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd (ePub)

EGOTIST CIRCUMVENTS TIME-TRAVELLER PRINCIPLE! "e; . . . Art and Ego are impossible to separate. We could argue all day and all night about what's Art and what isn't and who's feeding his Ego and who isn't - but even Plato and Socrates could tell you (if they were still with us,) that an Entertainer can be proven to have a limited shelf-life beyond which his market value will be reduced exponentially, whereas an Artist can't. If that's the only way to tell the difference then to spot an Artist you need hindsight, but I'm not so sure it is, and I have a couple of pointers of my own: "e;All Artists have a tendency to believe that if they flog their words, colours, sounds, designs or blocks of stone for long enough they will somehow find themselves a little closer to re-assembling their broken mirrors and seeing in them exactly what it is that compels them to pick so much fruit. Maybe it's God, but my guess is it's the Ego, and if Art only exists to feed it, who else but an Egotist could appreciate the crowning irony of 3rd Person, which while claiming it isn't Egotistical allows its users the delusion of Omnipresence? "e;All Artists are both broken up and Egotistical but they quite often don't have much else in common with each other so, as the old saying goes, if you want to know an Artist, look at his Art!"e;