To apprehend beauty is to work for it
“The appreciation of art should not be considered as merely a pleasurable pastime. To apprehend beauty is to work for it. It is a mighty […]
“The appreciation of art should not be considered as merely a pleasurable pastime. To apprehend beauty is to work for it. It is a mighty […]
“Everything that is beautiful is orderly, and there can be no order unless things are in their right relation to each other. Of this right […]
“Appreciation of life is not easy. One says he must earn a living — but why? Why live? It seems as though a great many […]
“The man who believes that money is the thing is cheating himself. The artist teaches that the object of a man’s life should be to […]
“The sketch hunter has delightful days of drifting about among people, in and out of the city, going anywhere, everywhere, stopping as long as he […]
Proto Abstraction What I call ‘proto abstraction’ can, as the name implies, be considered a way-stage on the road to abstraction proper. It typically depicts […]
“Freud was right in linking play and phantasy, but he was surely wrong in believing that play and phantasy should be abandoned in favour of […]
“The neurotic fails through incessant vacillation. The artist succeeds in giving shape and form to the conflict and ejects truth and beauty.” – Otto Rank […]
Aesthetics is usually defined as “a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful and with judgments concerning beauty.” I recall the endurance […]
“… it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. […] Today the individual has become […]
You just have to do your creative work, whatever that is for you. Failure or success are matters to be assessed much, much later, once […]
I’ve never listened to Nick Cave’s music. But I will get around to it. I recently randomly discovered his blog, The Red Hand Files. Here […]
“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have […]
“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, […]
“Whatever I see, I see. I try to see it like myself and not like I’ve been told to see it, or how I should […]
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