Celebration of the artist

Author: Cui Zi'en
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Appropriately, we should read the text here as poetry and hear it as a song. It is celebratory, prayerful, lamenting, pleading, and confiding. Although there is some narration and integration, one should not take it seriously as if it would teach any "objective truth" of art or practical "rules"—it merely displays the self-awareness and reflection of an "artistic heart." Fundamentally, it is descriptive, yet it is a portrayal born of reverence and a narration filled with admiration. Each article is like a facet of a diamond, each refracting its own unique brilliance, ultimately converging into pure radiance; or like different movements of a symphony, extending and looping, yet always remaining only the "artistic heart's" personal testament to its own qualities. Art endures, humanity is immortal, long live the artists!