tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post115925093595688307..comments2023-05-16T09:36:32.837-05:00Comments on musings of: Art comes from...anonymous juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18055080538242335793noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post-1160534934568157322006-10-10T21:48:00.000-05:002006-10-10T21:48:00.000-05:00Julie,You might be interested in a painting experi...Julie,<BR/>You might be interested in a painting experience called "Process Painting". It is a very wonderful creativity process whereby you don't need to know how to paint, and you don't even know what you're going to paint till you do it. Google "Process Painting" and see what you get. I went to a workshop by Stuart Cubley, and loved it. Check this out: http://www.processarts.com/<BR/><BR/>Best to you,<BR/>MMeredithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09432640322896933989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post-1160109571691291312006-10-05T23:39:00.000-05:002006-10-05T23:39:00.000-05:00Andrew; thank you. I know.Bert, thanks, I will!La...Andrew; thank you. I know.<BR/><BR/>Bert, thanks, I will!<BR/><BR/>Larry, I suppose that may be... what I don't understand is why so many people think there are "things" to be "done"...<BR/><BR/>Rob, I think there's something there...<BR/><BR/>Isaiah, I like the musician's answer too. And your whole response, really, thank you. <I>"It creates-----we slap labels on it, damning the flow, wishing we were here, now.....and being here, now and not realizing."</I> <BR/><BR/>Imemine; true!<BR/><BR/>Anonymous - Trev? Other? - Great quote; a lot to take in, good observations. Thank you.anonymous juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055080538242335793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post-1160064197466540922006-10-05T11:03:00.000-05:002006-10-05T11:03:00.000-05:00"The fault arises from your sense of personal expe..."The fault arises from your sense of personal expectations. Of course, you could easily say that you do not have any expectations. But the desire not to have expectations only becomes another form of expectation. So expectations are a stumbling block. We color and re-edit our experiences drastically. How do we do that? We do it with our passion, aggression, and ignorance.<BR/><BR/>Passion colors our expectations with desire. We are constantly trying to mold our expectations in terms of what we want. The rest of what we hear is completely inaudible; the rest of what we see is completely invisible. We only take in what we want to see and hear. Whatever we see or hear is constantly subject to our rejection, or our ignorance: we push it away because it is personally inapplicable, or we ignore it, we create a mental block to shut it off because it does not suit our requirements.<BR/><BR/>When you are in a passionate state, you begin to like the world, and you begin to be attracted to certain things - which is good. Obviously, such attraction also entails possessiveness and some sense of territoriality, which comes later. But straightforward, pure passion - without ice, without water, without soda - is good. It is drinkable; it is also food; you can live on it. It's quite marvelous that we have passion, that we are not made purely out of aggression. It's some kind of saving grace that we possess, which is fantastic."<BR/><BR/>- Chogyam Trungpa<BR/>Dharma ArtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post-1159990243352054032006-10-04T14:30:00.000-05:002006-10-04T14:30:00.000-05:00There is a big difference between experience and e...There is a big difference between experience and experiencing. Experience is the past.CEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03035537286045410536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post-1159946716538734202006-10-04T02:25:00.000-05:002006-10-04T02:25:00.000-05:00Very nice, very nice.Very nice, very nice.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07971088194383172409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post-1159878656288378832006-10-03T07:30:00.000-05:002006-10-03T07:30:00.000-05:00In interviewing a noted singer/ songwriter once I ...In interviewing a noted singer/ songwriter once I asked her this same question- where does your music come from? She said that '..knowing would be too much- that we're here to simply let it flow, to not try and discover the source but to understand we are on this plane of existence to let it flow'. I liked that answer.<BR/><BR/>Being "interested in experience" may lead one to create (although it may be the one truly difficult endeavor to pursue) "an experience" for others...in trying to communicate emotion (both form & formless) into something solid and tangible, if only for a moment in the case of performance art or 100 years, in the form of a great structure or precise angle of glass against a skyline.<BR/><BR/>I like what Rollo May had to say about being an artist (which we all are- in one form or another):<BR/><BR/>"Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that: we are helping--to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be. We can then say, with Joyce, 'Welcome, O life! We go for the millionth time to forge in the smithy of our souls the uncreated conscience of the race.'"<BR/><BR/>As for the greatest of Intention, that which is form and formless, and which is our being.... what need is there for inspiration? "It" (and we are that, too)cannot- not be anything other than manifesting, creating as well as creation itself.<BR/><BR/>It creates-----we slap labels on it, damning the flow, wishing we were here, now.....and being here, now and not realizing.<BR/><BR/>Anyway.....it's all good. Great question.isaiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07704507894213178186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post-1159483379850922802006-09-28T17:42:00.000-05:002006-09-28T17:42:00.000-05:00Interesting ideas..I think creativity is connected...Interesting ideas..<BR/>I think creativity is connected to starting afresh. This sort of ties in with Jon's idea about emptiness and fullness.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08023844543481324561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post-1159377773294377152006-09-27T12:22:00.000-05:002006-09-27T12:22:00.000-05:00Well Julie in 1956 I got a program that has consum...Well Julie in 1956 I got a program that has consumed me as first priority ever since: I became aware of God's personal love for me.<BR/><BR/>I was so overcome with gratitude that I wanted only to express it however I could. And still am.<BR/><BR/>Other, lesser priorities came in bit by bit, another love, marriage, family, calling: lots of satisfaction and lots of frustration.<BR/><BR/>in 1983 Blake came in and is now included with those other "care abouts". As Ezekiel told him, the greatest thing is to raise other people to a perception of the Infinite.Larry Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11571190213288384302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post-1159295904390969062006-09-26T13:38:00.000-05:002006-09-26T13:38:00.000-05:00I've discoverd another book for you to read: Cynth...I've discoverd another book for you to read: Cynthia Freeland - But is it art?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21390534.post-1159272752073003942006-09-26T07:12:00.000-05:002006-09-26T07:12:00.000-05:00I'm not sure what I care about, either.This is not...I'm not sure what I care about, either.<BR/><BR/>This is not necessarily the easiest thing to sit and be present with when everyone else seems to be clamoring and passionate about things that, to me, seem kind of empty and nonexistent.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10983783828178333644noreply@blogger.com