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Damocles
If you would have me write of bliss, exclaiming art mere artifice, a simple sham designed to fool the ignorant who fill our schools with some vain hope of what might be: quite useless, a mad symphony that holds no … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artificiality, artists, balance, bliss, creativity, Damocles, ignorance, integrity, truth
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Have the best minds of my generation been destroyed by madness?
From Ann Charters’ introduction to The Portable Beat Reader: Earlier in the history of American literature, the novelist Henry James acknowledged in his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne that “the best things come, as a general thing, from the talents that … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Statements
Tagged Ann Charters, artists, Generation X, peers, the 60s, The Portable Beat Reader
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Hello Dali
cast andrew wyeth pablo picasso salvador dali georgia o’keefe francis bacon THE ACTION TAKES PLACE IN A COFFEE SHOP IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE SCENE ONE AS THE LIGHTS COME UP, WE SEE WYETH, PICASSO, AND BACON SITTING AROUND A 50’s STYLE … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artists, creativity, drama, excerpts, plays, surrealism
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More on the Artist Within …
The poet’s or the painter’s vision of the divine in nature, the worshipper’s awareness of a holy presence in the sacrament, symbol or image – these are not entirely subjective. True, such perceptions cannot be had by all perceivers, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, art, artists, books, poetry, The Perennial Philosophy
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A Thought on Artists
“Who is that person whom you call an artist? A man who is momentarily creative? To me he is not an artist. The man who merely at rare moments has this creative impulse and expresses that creativeness through perfection of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artists, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Living in Ecstacy, work
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