David Cozy:

>If an artist truly has no desire to communicate that's easily enough
>accomplished.  All this artist needs to do is complete his or her work and
>then lock it in a desk drawer--or better, burn it--telling no one about
>it. I don't think any of the artists Mark does mention, Schoenberg,
>Cage, and Etc., have followed this procedure.

But if they had burnt it without telling anyone, how would you know?

I wouldn't mind betting that most artists have done exactly that, at
some point.  But if you spend all your time creating works of art, whether
or not it is with the intention of communicating them, unless you have
independent means you have to make them available just to keep body and
soul together.  And why not? Taking money for something you have created
says nothing about whether the impulse was to communicate.

Alan Moss