GG: Artists and Their "Abnormalities"

[John Hill <jphill@home.com>]

jv wrote:

> One of the wonderful things
> about art is that it can be enhanced by its creators' abnormalites; you
> couldn't say the same thing about the profession of surgery, say, or of
> air traffic control.

True.  One has to wonder about folks like Miles Davis, who was basically
drug-addicted and dependent for large periods of his adult life.  Would
an absence of mind-altering chemicals have stunted that creative output
(which was stunning, to say the least) or made it even more rich?  Same
thing with Monk, although there the question would have been about
internal brain chemicals and not the ones that are snorted, smoked or
injected.

jh