is a pure philosophical book of all
arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.
The
live creature:
“In order to understand the meaning
of artistic products, we have to forget them for a time, to turn aside from
them and have recourse to the ordinary forces and conditions of experience that
we do not usually regard as esthetic.
It is quite possible to enjoy flowers
in their colored form and delicate fragrance without knowing anything about
plants theoretically. But if one sets out to understand the flowering of
plants, he is committed to finding out something about the interactions of
soil, air, water and sunlight that condition the growth of plants.”
Having
an experience:
“Experiencing like breathing is a
rhythm of intakings and outgivings. Their succession is punctuated and made a rhythm
by the existence of intervals, periods in which one phase is ceasing and the
other is inchoate and preparing.
An engraver, painter, or writer is in
process of completing at every stage of his work. He must at each point retain
and sum up what has gone before as a whole and with reference to a whole to
come. Otherwise there is no consistency and no security in his successive
acts.”
The
act of expression:
“The difference between the
artificial, the artful, and the artistic lies on the surface. In the former
there is a split between what is overtly done and what is intended. The
appearance is one of cordiality; the intend is that of gaining favor. When the
natural and the cultivated blend is one, acts of social intercourse are works
of art.
Dance and sport are activities in
which acts once performed spontaneously in separation are assembled and
converted from raw, crude material into works of expressive art.”
“One may cry out with joy or even weep upon seeing a
friend from whom one has been long separated. The outcome is not an expressive object—save
the onlooker. But if the emotion leads one to gather material that is
affiliated to the mood which is aroused, a poem may result. In the direct outburst,
an objective situation is the stimulus, the cause, of the emotion. In the poem,
objective material becomes the content and matter of the emotion, not just its
evocative occasion.”
The
organization of energies:
“It has been repeatedly intimated that there is a
difference between the art product (statue, painting or whatever), and the work
of art. The first is physical and potential; the latter is active and
experienced. It is what the product does, its working.”
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