Sentences on Conceptual Art (1969) - Tetragrammaton
The ways creative work gets done are always unpredictable, demanding room to roam, refusing schedules and systems. They cannot be reduced to replicable formulas.
Rebecca Solnit • Men Explain Things to Me
Art is unbiddable; all you can do is signal your readiness. Wrong turns, eliminated, reveal the right path.
David Mitchell • Utopia Avenue
One could say, as the philosopher John Dewey did, that all art (verbal, visual, auditory, gustatory) is the transformation of the artist’s embodied self-awareness into a sensory form that leads back to another embodied experience, that of the person appreciating the work of art (Dewey, 1934). But that transformation is never perfect, hence the inhe
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A unique motivation to create: The artist is seeking a new way to think about something. Deviation or separation from what preceded it: The artist seeks a fresh approach, not what others have done in similar situations.