Viggo Mortensen // "To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life."
Viggo Mortensen // "To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life."
instagram.com“The process of making art,” writes Rebecca Solnit, “is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity.”[2]
We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output. The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.
An artist has an eye for beauty. An artist looks for wonder in the physical world and the virtual world. An artist sees what isn’t readily seen by others, and shares that vision with humanity. An artist knows how to surrender to the creative force…to be thoughtless and in love.
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ― James Baldwin
To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention.
To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention.