An artist is someone who has chosen to pay extraordinary attention to a particular thing, isolating it from the whole experience of existence and then presenting it back to other people in the form of a particular experience.
Posts Tagged ‘creation’
Looking intently
August 21, 2008“A true revelation, it seems to me, will only emerge from stubborn concentration on a solitary problem. I am not in league with inventors or adventurers, nor with travellers to exotic destinations. The surest – also the quickest – way to awake the sense of wonder in ourselves is to look intently, undeterred at a single object. Suddenly, miraculously, it will reveal itself as something we have never seen before.”
Cesare Pavese, Dialoghi con Leuco, 1947 – quoted by Robert Bringhurst in The Elements of Typographic Style.
Imagery and Movement
August 21, 2008“The process of repeating actions exactly many times, working within strict limitations, then introducing small variations and memorizing them exactly, teaches the body to be very precise … – of being exactly in control of where each movement begins and ends – … .
One major challenge [is] … how to survive such a potentially monotonous procedure. … It seems that the way through this problem is for the actor to develop an inner life of imagery which feeds and is fed by the physical work. It is also essential to develop a sensitivity to and interest in minute variations of movement and to discover or forge links between these and personal images or emotional sensations. Thus, alongside the growth of the expressive ability of the body is the growth of the imagination and visual thinking.”
