Philosophy
Nature is not a resource, it is a mentor.
In the old romance of the artist, any person who has the temerity to spend a season in hell risks not getting out alive or coming back psychically damaged. The heroic avant-gardism of French literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries furnishes a memorable pantheon of artists who fail to survive their trips to hell. Still, there
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Tarkovsky on Bresson, Bach, Tolstoy, Leonardo and Shakespeare
youtube.comExcerpts from the 1983 Italian documentary "A Voyage in Time" and the 2019 documentary "Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer". Tarkovsky states that his only teachers in art have been Robert Bresson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Leo Tolstoy and Leonardo da Vinci. He also talks about the asceticism of Bresson's cinema. In the end, the Russian master argues that all of them are poets.
Through wonder and amazement we become philosophers
The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory, magical; art was an instrument of ritual. (Cf. the paintings in the caves at Lascaux, Altamira, Niaux, La Pasiega, etc.) The earliest theory of art, that of the Greek philosophers, proposed that art was mimesis, imitation of reality. — Susan Sontag
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youtube.com"Against Interpretation"
Against Interpretation is an essay by Susan Sontag that criticizes the prevailing emphasis on interpreting and analyzing works of art, arguing for a focus on experiencing and appreciating art for its own sake.
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Philosophy begins in wonder, and the art of it is to keep this wonder with you. Many questions are worth asking, re-asking, revisiting, rethinking. One must seek Knowledge, but be a little wary of finding it. Perhaps excessive, but one could say the idea of possessing knowledge represents a kind of complacency. This is what Socrates meant: Once you... See more