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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clavis" data-source="post: 3764951" data-attributes="member: 31898">I for one disagree with that school of thought, and hold to the idea that the author or creator is the single most important part of any art. In nature birdsong expresses the intelligence and health of its singers. Better singers are healthier and smarter, and those females who breed with them will likely have stronger and smarter chicks. In human life, art expresses the ideas, obsessions, physical capacities and metal states of its creators. It draws together those of similar ideas, and has persisted because of its use to society, and because artistic people are more attractive breeding partners.When I choose to read a book, I do so because it is the kind of book that appeals to the kind of person I am. I am in sympathy with its author. If I enjoy a particular kind of music, it is because my nature is sympathetic to the kind of person who makes the kind of music in question. But the art itself is not expressive of MY nature, but rather my nature is sympathetic to the art. If we want to understand ourselves through art, we must understand the artist first, because in that way we can uncover what it is about that person that we stand in sympathy with.How many of us have found our mates through creating art (playing guitar, etc.) or viewing art (going to the movies, at museums, etc.)?When I identify myself as a lover of a particular kind of art, I already have something in common with all those who also like that kind of art. The art functions as a social glue, both defining an in-group and creating an out-group to persecute. So art draws together those of like mind, whether for love or war. On this thread, for example those who are in sympathy with Anime are arrayed against those who are not. For me, the question is not what does anime say about me, but what does it say about its creators that I either like, or do not like?</blockquote>

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