The Artist Doesn’t Make the Art
Our art matters way more than we, as artists, do.
Would “We are the world” kindle the very same set of emotions in you should it have been sung by the Soweto Gospel Choir and Trompies?
Would you get the same effect from the Mona Lisa should it have been painted by Gerard Bhengu?
Whatever you feel or get from this writing, would it have been different should this have been written by Lebogang Nkoane?
Between
the Mona Lisa and Leonardo da Vinci, who made who?
(Leonardo da Vinci might have created the painting; but the painting made him.)
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— August 23, 2010.