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hat makes good art?
Perhaps a good artist.
What makes a good artist?
What makes good artists attract?
What makes attraction?
What creates magnetism?
Why do certain few people draw people in?
Why do a select few draw everybody in? Those like Elvis, like Kennedy, like that homecoming queen you went to school with that captivated everybody’s attention.

Confidence, and being oneself might be a big part of attraction.
I have a degree in acting, and with modern acting, truthful and honest behavior is almost always more interesting and engaging. There is something fascinating about watching people
that can expose themselves, lower their guards, and let their most personal, true, honest, natural and human instincts, reactions and nuances come out. Perhaps people like this are magnetic because they tell us more about ourselves, they are, more so, a reflection of who we are, than the normal quantity of feedback we receive, which is fairly watered down, distorted and/or suppressed unto us.

Think about your interactions: the more honest a person’s behavior while they are around you - the more truthful, their responses (i.e. feedback) to your actions should be; As a result, the quality of the feedback you get from such contact is very rewarding, crystallizing, - they can reflect the truth of you. Honesty allows us to trust another’s subtle assessments. Constant response-reaction exchanges construct the shape of our self-concept by providing content and opinion as subtle suggestions which are often unconscious or seemingly unperceived.

If you were alone in the universe - with no-one to reflect you, how much would you know about yourself? For all you knew, you might be a big blue snot blob and just dreaming that you had arms and legs. Being without responses, means that you have no feedback; no gauge to bounce your ideas and suspicions off of; no source to suggest into your gaps those components not thought of.

Meaning is residue. Understanding comes from the reflection of one’s thought off the minds of subjective others = cerebral assessment. (Just like white light, containing the whole spectrum of colors/wavelengths, illuminates a painting in terms of the colors that are absorbed and reflected - so does thought project upon the canvass of other minds to illuminate reality (objective truth or meaning); On a continuum, our minds register the thoughts that are reflected as truth/awareness.) - Through this sort of perceptual exchange, reality is constructed by human beings; Human beings are constructed by this perceived reality.

So, the great peace of art must offer a dependable reflection or suggestion. Honest art reveals the honest artist: when a person’s true self is presented – it helps us all build our concepts because we have so many elements confirmed. We recognized in artistic expression, elements we already recognize within ourselves. Once a thought finds an outside, independent match, we can then mark it as “confirmed.” With this in mind, it seems reasonable that we would gravitate towards sources, both human and representational, that not only produce a greater amount of confirmation, but perhaps more importantly, provide a highly accurate and trustworthy gauge – a more universal collection of self-confirmations and concept suggestions.

Dirk Sorensby
Drunken Editor
World's Most Raw Honest anti-Forum
http://rawhonestforum.com

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