I Forget Where I First Saw It...

[mrdankelly]

But I once read a sentence that explained why Picasso drew the way he did to someone who didn't "get" his work. I probably remember it incorrectly, but it said, basically, "Picasso could draw a horse that looked exactly like a horse, but he chose not to, because he wanted to present a new way of looking at a horse."

Comments

[alfaguru]

Dan, surely there are lots of other prose styles that are not "straightforward, no-frills, descriptive" but are still comprehensible? Why not add some frills? Try some more out-there metaphors? And there's lots of poetry that isn't concrete, that might have something to lend to prose.

[mrdankelly]

You are correct. One of the issues, however, is finding a market that doesn't mind all that fruity stuff.

[alfaguru]

Market? Market? Have you forgotten your duty to starve in a garret?

[alfaguru]

You should become an art critic! No obligation to write comprehensibly at all, then.