How much of art comes from the artist?

Whilst I tend to agree that something is not art until read/seen/viewed by another in many instances, I have to agree with the thrust of Alcuin's argument.

My poetry; in the main, is written so that the reader can find what art they wish, what message they wish. This is an intentional thing, requiring a layering of meanings in each piece.  If I just randomly babbled on, only keeping to "dictionary definition number one" meanings of words, I'd have produced nothing more than a really bad advetorial!

I am a nerd, (and yes I have beaten people up Leanne!! lol) and love all things fractal, though to suggest that a randomly occuring part of nature which can be duplicated with equations is art, well.....that is just folly. Beautiful yes, art, no!

End.

Mos.