"D. Stephen Heersink" wrote:

>I think this distinction between "craft" and "art" can and should be made,
>but not for the reasons Mr. Pirkle gives.  Craft is a skill that can have
>varying degrees of success and excellence.  Art is superior to craft,
>although a subspecies of it, because it makes something so distinctive and
>unique as to be inspired or inspirational or both.

One of my college professors told us in a counterpoint class that there
was no art in the Bach inventions, only craft.  He said that to reinforce
the idea that if we learned the craft of counterpoint well enough we could
write inventions equal to Bach's.

Chris Bonds