The Businessman and the Artist
Business vitalizes humanity's productive potential, and art vitalizes humanity's creative potential. When the two work together, as they did in 1920s, the result is a legacy of embodied beauty.
One of the biggest problems facing the world today is separation, indeed hostility, between the businessman and the artist. Many artists are of socialist persuasion and are against business, and many businesspeople see art as useless or impractical. The result, logically, is business putting into place the architecture and technology that lack artistic genius in their design, and artists having no resources to fund their work.
I see no reason why America, with 300 million people and average income of $40,000 a year, cannot have 300 works comparable to Sistine Chapel which was produced in Renaissance Italy, with 3 million people and an average income of $1,500 a year. Nor do I see why America cannot have any number of Renoirs or Tchaikovsky's. People today are as talented as they've ever been; and that is especially the case in America that has seen immigration from the most keen-minded people anywhere.
I want to see the businessman and the artist mend bridges and work together. I am not looking back to 1960s but to 1920s. This time produced exceptional economic growth; it also produced beautiful architecture and technology that remains the world's most beautiful architecture and technology to this day.
Ultimately, the creative and the productive are both claims on life. They are a way to bring into the world something that has not previously existed, that enriches the civilization and that enriches the world. This is as much the case with a painting as it is the case with a car. In both cases, life is enriched; and in both cases something comes into the world that had not been there previously.
The businessman and the artist therefore have something very vital in common. They are both creators. They are both producers. They both add to life. They should be allies, not enemies.
The result will be the productive and the creative working together to create a legacy of embodied beauty that will make the world proud for generations to come.
One of the biggest problems facing the world today is separation, indeed hostility, between the businessman and the artist. Many artists are of socialist persuasion and are against business, and many businesspeople see art as useless or impractical. The result, logically, is business putting into place the architecture and technology that lack artistic genius in their design, and artists having no resources to fund their work.
I see no reason why America, with 300 million people and average income of $40,000 a year, cannot have 300 works comparable to Sistine Chapel which was produced in Renaissance Italy, with 3 million people and an average income of $1,500 a year. Nor do I see why America cannot have any number of Renoirs or Tchaikovsky's. People today are as talented as they've ever been; and that is especially the case in America that has seen immigration from the most keen-minded people anywhere.
I want to see the businessman and the artist mend bridges and work together. I am not looking back to 1960s but to 1920s. This time produced exceptional economic growth; it also produced beautiful architecture and technology that remains the world's most beautiful architecture and technology to this day.
Ultimately, the creative and the productive are both claims on life. They are a way to bring into the world something that has not previously existed, that enriches the civilization and that enriches the world. This is as much the case with a painting as it is the case with a car. In both cases, life is enriched; and in both cases something comes into the world that had not been there previously.
The businessman and the artist therefore have something very vital in common. They are both creators. They are both producers. They both add to life. They should be allies, not enemies.
The result will be the productive and the creative working together to create a legacy of embodied beauty that will make the world proud for generations to come.
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