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"Art is a lie that makes us realize
truth."
Pablo Picasso
"Artist, you are a priest:
Art is the great
mystery and,
if your effort results in a
masterpiece,
a ray of the divine will descend as on an altar.
Artist, you are a king:
Art is the true empire,
if your hand
draws a perfect line,
the Cherubim themselves will descend to revel in
their reflection.
Spiritual design, a line of the soul, form of understanding,
you make our dreams incarnate.
Artist, you are a mage:
Art is
the great mystery,
it only proves our
immortality."
- Joséphin Péladan
Art reflects the creative immortality of the
individual.
"Genius has been the servant of tyranny and
art has advertised the merits of the
local cult.
Time, as it passes, separates the good art from the bad
metaphysics. Can we learn to make this separation, not after the event, but while it is
actually taking place? That is the question."
Aldous Huxley
"Awareness is only one part of
consciousness.
The greater part is
imagination/creation.
It needs
no factual foundation.
It needs no sanction.
Art makes
realities, worlds, universes.
In doing so, it jettisons rules.
It makes up its own rules,
or dispenses with rules altogether."
- Jon Rappoport
"The revolt against
individualism
naturally calls artists severely to account,
because the
artist is of all men the most
individual;
those who were not have
been long forgotten."
Willa
Cather
"To sing and play an instrument, to dance, to draw,
to create beautiful objects from the materials available in the
environment, is
as natural a part of
being human as it is to walk, talk, and play. The atrophy of these
functions began with the advent of the Neolithic division of labor, and
accelerated as the division of labor intensified withthe global industrial
revolution, which also created the means to replace them with mass-produced
substitutes.
As the magical power of art came to be understood in terms
of its representational content artists pursued perfection in their images - tantamount to perfect
control over reality. (see transcendental temptation)
Yet when Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da
Vinci made the final technical breakthroughs in perspective around the year
1500, nothing magical happened. Perspective painting records objects as they
look, at a moment in time, thereby implicitly subordinating reality to the
human observer and affirming the fundamental dualism of
separation of self from the natural
world.
The ambition was to make
representation real, the same ambition that lives
on in the latest version of the trap for immortality: the software simulation
of consciousness in
a virtual reality world. We now
live almost wholly in a manufactured reality, a
world of images, but nothing has actually
changed." - Charles
Eisenstein
"In the West the painter's and sculptor's job has
been to design the perfect trap for human immortality." - John Ralston
Saul
"Dictatorships did not succeed in frightening
artists to death, nor has democracy done them in altogether, although some
observers consider democracy to be by far the greater threat." - Saul
Bellow
"Traditionally, the arts have been ways of making
that have placed a just value on their materials or subjects, on the uses and
the users of the things made by art, and on the artists themselves. They have,
that is, been ways of giving honor to the works of God." - Wendell
Berry
"The brain has a strong propensity
to organize information and perception in
patterns, and music plays into
that inclination. From an acoustical perspective,
music is an overstructured language,
which the brain invented and which the brain loves to hear." - Michael
Thaut
Art is defined as:
the products of
human creativity
the creation of beautiful or
significant things
human works of
beauty considered as a group.
a nonscientific
branch of learning; one of the liberal
arts
a field
or category of
art, such as
music, poetry, or literature
a
superior skill that is attained by study, practice
and observation
photographs or
other visual representations in a printed publication
human effort to
imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the
work of nature
high quality of conception or
execution, as found in works of beauty;
aesthetic value
a trade or
craft that applies a
system of principles and methods:
the art of the lexicographer
a
system of principles and methods
employed in the performance of a set of activities: the
art of building
skill arising from the exercise of
intuitive faculties: "Self-criticism is an
art not many are qualified to practice"
(Joyce Carol Oates)
the conscious
production or arrangement of sounds, colors,
forms, movements, or other elements in a
manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the
beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
art and
living patternsAll social cultures set living Patterns.
Predatory
psychopaths see Patterns and take advantage of the pattern weaknesses due to
taboo.
Within a social culture taboo was originally set through example:
tragedy - do not mimic!
Creative individuals recognize these patterns
as well but they are restricted by
moral
concerns.
Predators strive to keep minds restricted within narrow
limits of confined understanding.
Art allows direct access to
the Human Subconscious.
Predators fail
to understand patterns embedded within Art as patterns are infinitely variable.
Patterns upon Patterns are Perceptual to the Artist that Prints
Symbiotic Patterns on Reality.
"Art is like chocolate to the brain. Art taps into
both sides. Art has benefited the soul of the species since the time of
cavemen.
Behavioral
scientists point out that activities that give you a sense of mastery, a sense
of control, have a very positive effect on your well-being. A sense of mastery
and of control creates positive feedback to the immune
system." - Gene D. Cohen
Findings from biological
research suggest that
sustained involvement in positive,
gratifying activities results in positive immune
system responses, suggesting a
protective immune system boost for
individuals involved in positive, gratifying activities such as the creation of
works of art.
artistan
individual whose creative work shows
sensitivity and
imagination.
an individual whose work
shows exceptional creative ability or skill.
one, such as an actor or singer, who works in the
performing arts.
one who is adept at an activity, especially one
involving trickery or deceit: a con artist.
one, such as a painter,
sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of
imagination
and talent or skill to
create works of aesthetic value, especially in the
fine arts.
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