The role of art is to embody virtue
The role of art is to embody virtue
Most artists are so busy simply attempting to produce satisfying work or make a living that they forget that, ultimately, they are making work to communicate their own version of the truth. We make work that mirrors our own deeply held ideas about the world.
Lisa Congdon • Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
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And creating art may be the most effective and beautiful method of doing so. Art goes beyond language, beyond lives. It’s a universal way to send messages between each other and through time.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
All art—dance, drama, architecture, literature, music, etc.—is about the recognition of beauty and the articulation of empathy and compassion for the Other.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
Up to now, we have collectively learned to admire the values of the arts (which can be summed up as a devotion to truth, beauty and goodness) in the special arena of galleries. But their more important application is in the general, daily fabric of our lives – the area that’s currently dominated by an often depleted vision of commerce. It’s a tragi
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
why artists are meant to be in service
this might sound — grandiose, sure — but I think as artists, we are connected so intimately with the essence of life; more deeply than any other profession, other than the spiritual/religious.
I’m not referring to art as a means of purely aesthetics or creative labor (particularly now in the age of AI) — but ar... See more
this might sound — grandiose, sure — but I think as artists, we are connected so intimately with the essence of life; more deeply than any other profession, other than the spiritual/religious.
I’m not referring to art as a means of purely aesthetics or creative labor (particularly now in the age of AI) — but ar... See more