events and upheavals on the surface may seem important, but the real changes and progress happen on a much deeper level and are of a long, steady, persistent growth.
expression of that element in humanity which is the essence of life- which springs out away from the institution, which is the reformation upon which the institution is founded- which laughs at all boundaries. having adventure with the unknown
history proves that juries in art have been generally wrong. with few exceptions the greatest artists have been repudiated by the art juries in all countries, at all times.
an artists life is one long investigation of things and their own reaction to them. worthwhile art is a record of intense life. the work is a record of a special effort, search and findings, in language especially chosen and devised to best express the artist and the significance of such work can only be understood by careful study.
opening up our perception of the wonder, at once terrible and fascinating, of ourselves and of the universe of which we are the ears and eyes and the mind.
to lose one's self-awareness in the making of a work of art is to become tuned into a guiding and controlling force not present in the routine operations of the consciousness.
mythic vision, which is ever present in the unconscious, is denied by our culture; not just it's existence, but also that it could have any significance for modern life.
the experience is the journey, not the arriving, because in a psychological and spiritual sense there is no arriving - it is a constant process of understanding.
the artist knows the right moment, and also the relentless, tireless, depth-probing urge. the moment is a flashing spark. the relentless urge is the everlasting holy fire. - Emil Nolde.
unfortunately it is difficult to experience the subjectivity of a true poetic awareness in the face of a collective cynicsm which prefers sensational novelty to a disclosure of more lasting values.
the twilight dimension where all is in a state of becoming.
黄昏時のディメンション、そこでは全てが変化の途上にある。
every force evolves a form.
全ての力は形を生み出す。
the purpose of art is not to reproduce what is already given (which would be superfluous), nor to create something in the pure play of subjective fancy ( which can only be transitory and must necessarily be a matter of complete indifference to other people), but to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed. - Max Scheler
there are two types of art, according to Ayn Rand in her book of essays, The Romantic Manifesto:
"reaching his mind and emotions simultaneously, with the combined impact of abstract thought and of immediate reality, one type of art tells man that disasters are transient, that grandeur, beauty, strength, self-confidence are his proper, natural state. The other tells him that happiness is transient and evil, that he is a distorted, impotent, miserable little sinner, pursued by leering gargoyles, crawling in terror on the brink of eternal Hell."
"the emotion involved in art is not an emotion in the ordinary meaning of the term. It is experienced more as a "sense" or a "feel", but it has two characteristics pertaining to emotions: it is automatically immediate and it has an intense, profoundly personal (yet undefined) value-meaning to the individual experiencing it, The value involved is life, and the words naming the emotion are:'This is what life means to me.' "