Now, Comes the Intellect

"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments." - Ayn Rand.

Art is not something which a bunch of bureaucrats discussing about an absurd Novel over a cocktail party, which they are struggling to read themselves.

Now-a-days, Art has become like that. These people will carry "Ulysses" by James Joyce, wherever they go. These people just try to showoff, but in the darkness they know what they are. I will tell you the truth, if you want to really read "Ulysses" by James Joyce, first of all buy a "Oxford Dictionary", memorize all the words in it before you start reading it. You will find all the word from Dictionary in it, for unknown reason.

These people will say that "Slumdog Millionaire" is an artistic film. I will reason with you, what do you think is a "Film" ? I will say it is the Storyline. In this film, the Artist who created it shows his "Metaphysical Value-Judgments".

Come on, will you watch a Computer Graphics Show for 1.5 hours and screen it in Theaters because it has complex arithmetics and Mandelbrot sets.

As for me, Art is a Michelangelo Picture, Bharatanatyam, Music, Concerts, Sculptures, etc... which I can feel, which I can understand, which is clear. All these things have a Grammars, Rules, Structures.

Understand me, you also write Novels by playing with Grammars, Rules and Structures, but saying nothing clearly. It is what some of the Novels now-a-days do. They think it is intellectual. Actually, they don't know it is always the other way around, Grammars, Rules and Structures are for making things clear, not to perplex.

It is not like I need to look into some absurd perplexing picture, so called "Modern Art" and come to my own conclusion. The picture will be a real chaos. Nobody knows what was in the mind of the Artist who created it. It maybe some sort of his "Practical Jokes", he might have created it to fool people, generation by generation.

Ayn Rand's Principle

"You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences."
-- Ayn Rand

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
-- Ayn Rand

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
-- Ayn Rand

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
-- Ayn Rand


The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
-- Ayn Rand

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
-- Ayn Rand

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
-- Ayn Rand

Some Ayn Rand Quotes

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

Anyone who fights for the Future lives in it today. - "I love this"

Great men can't be ruled.

There's nothing of any importance except how well you do your work.

Reason is man's basic means of survival.

"The three cardinal values of the Objectivist ethics with their three corresponding virtues: :
* Reason - Rationality
* Purpose - Productiveness
* Self-Esteem - Pride

"What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: Reason, Purpose, Self-Esteem."

My quote:

Pride is not evil, if have pride over your own creation.