The Mind Creative OCTOBER 2014 | Page 40

The Mind Creative Hopeful - that I will soon get an invitation to an event where I might come across a few artists who are willing to raise a call to arms; to come forth and do what they do best and be true to the call of creativity. These true ‘creatives’ might just be able to foreshadow the end of the ersatz connoisseurs. At one such event, I might in fact be able to say loudly that art does need the umbrella of patronage to flourish but it definitely does not need the taint of make-belief authority. To quote a close friend and artist, known for his crude and yet, philosophical remarks, “True art does not need the air of the airy-fairy neither does it need the fart of the arty-farty”. Sounds uncouth? But then many truths of the world do tend to sound impolite. 40