Leonardo
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Leonardo
Tippett:
What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?
O’Donohue:
I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.
What do you mean when you write that everyone is an artist?
O’Donohue:
I mean that everyone is involved, whether they like it or not, in the construction of their world. So it’s never as given as it actually looks; you’re always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist.
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Walking the path reveals more of the map
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.”
-Charles Bukowski
If your intention is to ‘make art’, then maybe you’ll get a couple of good paintings. You may even get a show or two.
But I think of it this way: I don’t make art. I make things . Framing it like that keeps what I’m doing from becoming precious. And that’s a good thing, because to be precious is to be timid—and that’s bad. Creativity requires
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