Deep Thoughts about Art and Soul
I actually have this on my Facebook page, but I wanted to ask it here too.
I got the coolest phone call yesterday, out of nowhere. A woman I met at a show, an art student about my age. She is writing a paper for art history class and wanted a couple of views on this quote:” Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
Pablo Picasso.
I actually kept it short and quotable.
Remove clay from a river’s edge, the formation of great art is seeded.Yet the river’s edge is changed from it’s natural course.
I looked up some of his other quotes.
I am delving into the discipline of art. The practice of art, writing, music, dance, etc becomes a passionate breakdown of inner walls. Allow your soul to open, a small chink.
Is this the tortured artist? Do we become that which you create, are is what we creat who we are? A very sacred, needy place. Do we open our innermost dark, light. Allow the world to see naked joy and fear? Is it okay in the eyes of society to be like no one else? I know the thought terrifies and intrigues me.
How vulnerable can we, should we be? Is it important to let that which is who we are at the innermost depths so dark, so light, so open, that the fear of rejection shuts us up and we become actors in our own lives?
Heavy thoughts for 7am on a Wednesday.
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