@ Reorte :
I've noticed that you didn't answered my question. So did I asked that? What's the relation between that and what we were talking about?
I asked that because you're talking about emotion as a starting point to criticism etc... everything you say is to defend a point of view that doesn't work at all. If I try to understand masterpieces from your point of view, there's a problem : it's all subjective, so there's no masterpiece. And you can say that Picasso doesn't know how to draw, or like VoteDC that "Le marteau sans maitre" is crap while it is established that it's a masterpiece (I know it's not what he said but he actually ignored what I was saying to say what he wanted to say, so let's do the same) etc... That's what I understand when I try to understand your point of view.
The fact that you didn't answered makes me think that you see that you're stuck in a dead end, so you don't go to that point because you'll reveal the limits of your point of view.
Maybe I'm wrong but you're the one who can show me that your point of view isn't a dead end.
And what I'm explaining is that in a fiction/ music/ etc... in art (I never talked about cooking books or anything else, so I don't get why sometimes you're talking about things we aren't talking!) there's both intellectual and emotional aspect. And criticism isn't about emotions first, criticism is about understanding the three level poietic, neutral and aesthesic. The starting point can't be the emotions otherwise you'll ignore the other level, that's what people do on the forum. Most people never talk about the game, they talk about their emotions and try to justify it by writing problems. It's very egoistic, centered on the ego. People aren't the heart of a story, it's the story which is the heart of itself. It's the writing that will decide if it's "good" or not, not the emotions.
Actually, emotional aspect and intellectual aspect aren't really opposed, they are part of the same thing. And writing and reading aren't really opposed too, they are part of the same thing (there's reading in writing and writing in reading). Things are not as simple as people want it to be, it's not black or white, we're not living in a fairy tales.
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But for me what he is really saying is that if the artist expresses themselves in a way that makes you understand. makes you get it but more importantly makes you believe in what they are say or what they wrote is his definition of art.
