"...A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?
and on Art and The Aesthetics of Goethe’s Worldview “The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.”
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
"Life is Difficult"
"Life is difficult, this is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we trascend it.... Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters....Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing....it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguish between success and failure...." opening paragraphs from M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Travelled
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