From: "David Youngdahl" <daveyoungdahl-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: PUPT: ignorance, professionalism
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:26:55 -0400


Bob Stone wrote:

>[Henson's] work was good,
> and accessible to a mass audience.  If your work is only appreciated by a 
> small number of people, you can have
> artistic success, but have trouble with financial success, no matter what 
> kind of economic system you work in.


This is true and the point about the Russian Ballet being controlled by the
state which funded it is very well made.

Then the result is that a professional needs to master the environment in
which they find themselves...

If I find myself in the middle of a lake, i can curse the water since it
doesn't allow me to walk OR
learn to swim;  master the environment

daveyoungdahl





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