So What Is ‘New’
There is always somebody not very far away from what you are doing. There are 2 types of new: new that is new to you or the new that is universally new, that is new to the frontline of Art.
“Only stillness speaks”
I would like to say something about his little booklet I pick up when I was visiting Auroville in Pondicherry in India. It is called ‘The National Value Of Art’, by Sri Aurobindo. What caught my eye was that this booklet was first published in six instalments in a magazine in November and December 1909.
We Worship Technique/Talent
The fact that talent is plentiful but passion is lacking seems to me to be fundamental facet of the problem of creativity many fields today, and our ways of approaching creativity by evading the encounter have played directly into this trend. We worship technique—talent—as a way of evading the anxiety of the direct encounter.
“in freedom alone can there be creativeness”
There is no method for self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably implies the desire to attain some result and that is what we all want. We follow authority—if not that of a person, then of a system, of an ideology—because we want a result that will be satisfactory, which will give us security. ...
Art No Thing!
There is only one way that can lead you to understand life and reality: your own way. Trusting your intuition, experience and theory helps you find your way.