Blind Tranquillity said:
You're just ignoring what I said about the differences between these fields of art. At least explain what do you think is making them comparable on this aspect. I'm actually all for comparing usually - I even compare visual arts to music quite a lot, but one needs to know how to compare and when the comparisson is wrong. I'm not saying that your comparissons are necessarily wrong, only that you'll need to explain why it's comparable and not just compare it after I claimed that it's not.
So please, why do you think that reading a book or watching a movie is the same as listening to an album, even though an album is being listened to much more than a movie watched or a book\story read?
They're comparable because all of them are different expressions of
creating.
You say that you listen to an album all the time, whereas you watch a movie or read a book only once or twice (which, btw, i don't agree with, you can do it many more times if you want, in order to get new insights on it or remember it or discover new information in it, or simply because you love it).
But you miss another point: you don't go around touring and reading your book to other people for months, and you don't go around acting your movie to people all the time (unless you work in a theatre, but then you can't watch your play, really, can you?).
Ah, but if that's the case then why publish it? Probably you'd like to hear what other people think of it (or just earn money), hoping they'll like it and say it's good. Of course it's satisfying to know that other people like what you enjoyed to create, but won't it be fairer of you to publish something that you think is good and that you'll like to listen to instead of releasing things you'd rather forget but still expect others to like and buy?
Enjoying the creation process alone just doesn't seem to be enough to make it worth releasing imho.
I agree with fireangel on this. Obviously since they created it and they went on to publish it, they did like it and were happy with it. If they thought it sucked, they wouldn't have thought anyone else might like it either, huh?
Also, they're something called
accomplishment and many people want to achieve that (if not all). There's nothing bad to wish for other people to recognize you can do something well, don't we all want that?
Last but not least, you seem to not understand that the drive for creation can be a pretty strong one, enough to satisfy you after putting down what you have inside you, and a very good reason for creating. The happiness that comes from creating is also a perfectly good reason to want to share your creation with others and see what they think of it..
