Experience

Do you need it to be an artist? You'd think yes, but maybe no. Neil ruminates.

I was in my late teens when I decided that the measure of great art was its ability to produce emotions in us we hadn’t yet experience in the real world. That it didn’t rely on the mapping of our experience onto it - we are the key to its lock - but instead it was the key that unlocked some latent, collective, atavistic feeling within us. I looked down …