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“Artist, you so crazy. Love always, your Plato”

by Kurt Knecht | Aug 27, 2011 | Beethoven, Chuck D, Dr. Dre, Plato, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, Uncategorized

In the Ion, Plato lays out the central problem with artists in general. To wit: they’re crazy. Well, maybe they aren’t crazy all the time, but they are at least crazy when they are making their art. Socrates points out that “all good poets…compose their beautiful...

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