Life Isnt a Support System for Art Its the Other Way Aroundã¢ââ ââ• Stephen King
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Some of SK's insights in On Writing excised latent cancerous thoughts plaguing my writing -- perhaps fifty-fifty my life. I'll spare you the details. I am deeply grateful for his actuality.
What I desire to know is what did he mean by -- life does not support fine art, it's the other way around (On Writing).
When I think I understand, an instant later there's a slippery fish on the floor and just moisture scales in my grasp.
Will you delight assist analyze this thought? Thank yous!!
Moved your thread to the On Writing section of the board Benjamin.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
- #three
Some of SK'south insights in On Writing excised latent cancerous thoughts plaguing my writing -- maybe fifty-fifty my life. I'll spare you the details. I am deeply grateful for his authenticity.
What I want to know is what did he mean by -- life does not support art, it'due south the other style around (On Writing).
When I retrieve I understand, an instant later in that location's a glace fish on the floor and but wet scales in my grasp.
Will you please help analyze this thought? Cheers!!
Welcome Benjamin
Quote past Stephen Rex: "Life isn't a support organization for fine art. It's the ..."
I approximate you would have to read the other sentences around it to go the full meaning.
Mayhap it means that the arts brand life worth living?
Most people cannot make a lot of money in the arts - you have to have a lot of talent.
- #5
I took information technology to mean that Mr. King believes that art is what makes us human and sets the states apart from our purely animal needs--what gives u.s. a 'life'. Without art (or one kind or some other), nosotros are not living fully; we are existing.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom'south side
- #six
Good ascertainment skimom2!
It besides reminds me of a quote from the movie "Kate and Leopold":
Where I come up from the repast is the result of reflection and study. Menus are prepared in advance, timed to perfection. It is said that without the culinary arts, the crudeness of reality would be unbearable.
Just retrieve how less rich our lives would be without books and reading
(or theatre, music, fine art galleries, etc.)
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mjs9153
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Good observation skimom2!
It besides reminds me of a quote from the movie "Kate and Leopold":
Where I come from the meal is the result of reflection and report. Menus are prepared in advance, timed to perfection. It is said that without the culinary arts, the crudeness of reality would exist unbearable.
Just think how less rich our lives would exist without books and reading
(or theatre, music, fine art galleries, etc.)
Interesting..just call back how life would exist without existence able to appreciate arts at all..makes you wonder if animals are cognizant of the natural dazzler effectually them,or if they merely continue,in their never catastrophe search for sustenance,the only idea where to observe their next repast..can animals that think,higher orders like bears,wolves,etc, appreciate the beauty surrounding them..
Neesy
#ane fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom'south side
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Interesting..but retrieve how life would be without being able to appreciate arts at all..makes yous wonder if animals are cognizant of the natural beauty around them,or if they just go on,in their never ending search for sustenance,the simply thought where to find their next meal..can animals that remember,higher orders like bears,wolves,etc, appreciate the beauty surrounding them..
You take brought up a practiced betoken. What about dolphins? elephants? I know animals have instincts (equally practice some people) which helps them survive.
Have yous e'er felt sort of a 'psychic' connexion with an brute? I tin can think of a domestic dog in particular (she belonged to my blood brother). I was sobbing for some reason or other a long fourth dimension ago - I think I was about nineteen. She came over and put her caput in my lap.
I have always admired crows and other clever birds - parrots, cockatiels etc.
Well - gotta go - I have been unable to post much lately but I hope to come back here this weekend, once hubby has flown back up North.
Beloved and light-green lights to all! 
mjs9153
Peripherally known member..
- #10
Yous have brought upwards a adept point. What nearly dolphins? elephants? I know animals have instincts (as exercise some people) which helps them survive.
Have you ever felt sort of a 'psychic' connection with an animal? I tin think of a dog in item (she belonged to my brother). I was sobbing for some reason or other a long time ago - I think I was about xix. She came over and put her head in my lap.
I have always admired crows and other clever birds - parrots, cockatiels etc.
Well - gotta go - I have been unable to post much lately but I hope to come back hither this weekend, once hubby has flown back up North.
Beloved and green lights to all!
Yes,just like yous,I was having a bad solar day over the loss of a family fellow member,and one of my buddies' dogs,Bear,came to me and watched me..what an expression he had,laid his chin on my human knee and looked like he wanted to heal me..what a great canis familiaris, he was pure black german shepherd..he besides liked to take a running jump into my truck bed,he would striking the plastic bed cover and slide all the fashion forward and hit the back of the cab,he loved doing that!Looked like this guy,beneath.. Adept old Bear.. 
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When you look at the modest desk in the corner of the room--I saw it as maxim--it'southward not all nigh him and his art. It's a ways to an cease only it'south not everything. And so many artists when they reach the pinnacle forget that life is not about them and their art--life is still most others. If we make it about bravado upward a big balloon of ego--everyone gets edged out. Considering in our darkest hours, our art would be easily traded for the love and comfort of our family unit. I call back that'southward why Mr. King treats what he does like a solar day in twenty-four hour period out task--non an elevated conversation with the muses that makes him special.
- #13
Some of SK'southward insights in On Writing excised latent cancerous thoughts plaguing my writing -- peradventure even my life. I'll spare y'all the details. I am deeply grateful for his authenticity.
What I want to know is what did he mean by -- life does not back up fine art, it's the other way around (On Writing).
When I think I sympathise, an instant later in that location's a slippery fish on the floor and merely wet scales in my grasp.
Will you please assistance clarify this idea? Give thanks you!!
Are yous sure that's a quote from him?
- #14
Some of SK'due south insights in On Writing excised latent cancerous thoughts plaguing my writing -- maybe even my life. I'll spare you lot the details. I am securely grateful for his actuality.
What I want to know is what did he mean by -- life does not support art, it's the other fashion around (On Writing).
When I think I understand, an instant later on there's a slippery fish on the floor and just wet scales in my grasp.
Will you delight help clarify this thought? Give thanks you!!
Oh yeah and love the fish metaphor.
- #15
I believe appreciation of fine art is something nosotros have evolved to possess every bit a long-term -- extremely long-term, equally I will explicate -- survival mechanism.
When people are almost to die, their thoughts probably showtime to gravitate toward the things they will no longer exist able to do. Such every bit: read the next Stephen King book. Or play the next affiliate of a video game. Every bit a club, we instinctually know this, and so the smarter ones among us try to cure affliction or redistribute income toward those goals (strange to me, equally an aside, that rich people don't scream at the government for more taxation so more research could exist done in terms of extending life by curing diverse diseases; the rich, having everything else taken intendance of, usually switch to life preservation as a major activity -- exercising, eating right, etc., as they can afford to do this, and want to do this and then they don't leave their comfy existence in this world whatsoever earlier than they must since they were lucky enough to win the lottery).
As nosotros evolve and hopefully get smarter (won't happen in our lifetime, or in the next thousand generations; development is slow), life theoretically will be extended. Longer lives, for obvious reasons, may crusade the public to become more interested in infinite travel (if someone lived for 300 years, say, then a 100-yr space mission might be supported by that person). And to our species, that is our ultimate need for long-term -- very long-term -- survival. (Note: I may take posted about this concept previously on the lath.)
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I know I am belatedly to the party, merely merely finished listening to SK's On Writing and just wanted to thank. I have started my work, just a few months agone, though writing is something I seem to come dorsum to each time I footstep away from other creative ventures. It's difficult to requite credence to yourself when most people won't understand why I am commencement this process at my historic period. Or maybe they would sympathize and I'yard not giving them credit. Anyhow, the volume, like some others I've been using as support systems, such as the Art of Ho-hum Writing past Louise DeSalvo, was very helpful and reaffirming. It'southward wonderful to hear Stephen read it. I'm not a suspense reader, or horror reader, so I wish I knew his work better, but this book was real and is duly noted and notated for time to come use. Thanks again Stephen.
Neesy
#ane fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
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The actual words on the page say "Life isn't a back up system for fine art. It's the other way around."
Look at the context: he's sobered upwardly, got rid of a massive desk in the middle of the room, "put in a living room suite" and moved his smaller writing area into the corner. This means that he can enjoy the visitor of his kids. It demonstrates that he has realised different priorities: his family (Life) is more important than his writing (Art).
When he says "put your desk in the corner" and not in the middle, it's an analogy, a bit like your slippery fish. It means your writing (and any related issues that you might be going through) shouldn't exist more than important than your real life, to the detriment of those around yous. I'm non sure it has anything to do with polar bears or dolphins.
Dolphins? Polar Bears? Who has been sullying this fine thread again?
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