One of the themes in The Vampire Chronicles was that the vampires couldn’t really do anything artistically valid. They never could. That they were outside of the great drama of human beings and what human beings can manage to create, and that art is completely legitimate, transformative, and transcendant when it is done by human beings, but not when it’s done by Marius or a vampire who is trying to do it… As you probably may know from other books that I’ve written like Cry to Heaven or Violin, I’m very concerned with the way we make art, and how we surrender ourselves to art, and I do feel that when we do that, when we play the violin, when we sing, when we paint, when we dance, we do come very, very close to God. We have, essentially, a mystical experience. We go beyond where we can go step-by-step; we take off; we take flight into something. In art and sexuality, for me, lie redemption and hope.
view 3 notes
andreapotterdiangelo liked this