Authors

I think that the accountablility varies with context. "Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Every man has his own views but you can right anything you want. In other words, you could write a view that is completely opposite from yours in order to get a point across and argue against it. On the other hand,"He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.” If the author is not using the view to argue against the hate or racism and writes it in an agreeing tone than he/she is writing his view. That makes me wonder, can an author even write without being bias? A lot of times you can recognize someone's bias in what they do or say or in this case write.








http://thinkexist.com/quotations/racism/
http://thinkexist.com/quotations/writers/

Who Decides?

I think that when someone creates something with the intention of it to be something meaningful then that is what art is. "Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment"(Claude Monet). If you create something from within and it isn't just a sudden impulse with no feeling or meaning behind it then you can call it true art. When someone throws a blue drop of paint onto a canvas just to be able to say 'I made art,' it is not art. "...There are not only more people collecting, there are more people collecting for the wrong reasons, basically as the latest get rich quick scheme. They buy art like lottery tickets"(Mary Boone). I think that some people today like to say anything and everything is art in order to gain something for themselves: art is a God given gift. I don't think its who decides what art is but how we decide how we decide what art is. Art is not a pointless project you do for social credit or money but an expression of emotion.

http://www.artquotes.net/quotesartists.htm

Words and Meaning

I think that the breakdown of words and meaning lies in the inadequate system of language. It is hard for us to explain everything ith merely words. For example, our imperfect human words cannot make someone know the feeling of love or sadness. A person cannot know in their mind a specific feeling. That is why people use their hands while they talk or facial expressions or just plain body language to transfer what they are trying to say. Reality is much more than imperfect words. So pretty much, our language is not a good enough way to explain THINGS in reality.