Re: Die Schere #10: Notes

[Wahe <Wahe@aol.com>]

Günter Rebing wrote on 19.05.1998:

> The second paragraph elaborates both this idea and the image of the starry
sky.
>
>  There is an infinite number of dark stars that do not emit any light, there
> are
>  countless humans that do not produce works of art. Those who did and do,
> however,
>  are revered but might be (at least the Ancients believed so, and EJ
> obviously
>  regards their belief as worth considering) like mere tiny holes pricked
into
> the
>  firmament that protects us from the blinding light of the divine.
>  An image of great beauty indeed –– but why does it suggest that each of us
> might
>  be a genius? From what EJ has said in the previous aphorisms of DIE SCHERE
> the
>  answer must be: it is because only the universally recognised creators of
> great
>  art manage to pass on the light which we all are exposed to but which our
>  contemporaries are unable or unwilling to see in the rest of us.

I understand that in this picture everybody is a star (i.e. lets some of the
light pass through), some bigger, some smaller or dark and all fade out
finally as time goes on, hence everybody is a genius.

It reminds me of Andy Warhol's saying >Everybody is a star for five minutes<
which I think was a comment on mass-media (Maybe somebody knows the exact
quotation and context).

Greetings

Walter Hedderich
Wahe@aol.com