Piper was one of those weird chapters to deal with, where you know she is a really intelligent woman, but she has a hard time writing about her thoughts in a coherent way. Anyways, she believes that the world fetishizes art way too much, meaning that we believe that it should speak to us, otherwise it is bad art; we give art more power than it actually has.
She also believes that the artist is just as important as the art, which is true. A piece of artwork, whatever form it is in, would not exist if there was no artist to create it.
One idea of hers that confuses me a bit is that music, for example, only actually exists in the mind of the composer, and that no matter how intelligently and intently people listen, they will only hear a representation of the true music. Do you agree with this or believe that this could be true?
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