Sermonette Commandment IX

Commandment IX:  Do not call art that which is not art.

As I noted in an earlier sermonette, all art is really art waiting to be art. Though it's generous to call all things art, that dilutes the meaning of art. To reserve judgment and to discriminate in judgment is not arrogance. Rather it is a test of your own standards and a crucial component in the process to form a definition of art that you must live by.

Be generous in the acceptance of the effort and the sincerity and the passion. of anything that presents as art.  But be demanding of the way in which the art reaches deep. Here is where art gives generously of its struggle, effort and meaning.