Quote: "Life
is art - art is life. I just looked out my window to see the most beautiful
artwork, the crystals forming over my window - beautiful... Just looking
around is art - the life we have is art - we are the expression of an amazing
artist."
BeiYin: When
you look at the ice crystals then your perception makes art out of it,
but it is you and not the crystals, these by themselves are not art, they
are formed by an automatic process due to some related reactions which
belong to nature laws. If something is beautiful or not depends on your
stored images build up through many different influences during your life;
individually changing due to culture, belief system, education, society,
fashion, etc. For one a big fat woman is beautiful, for another a small
skinny one. One woman with small breasts goes through a beauty operation
to get big breasts while another woman with big breasts let an operation
make her breasts small. All depending on the image of beauty one has.
Just looking around
is not art. Otherwise all people with eyes would be artists. In reality
people are looking but they are not seeing. Most people are blind even
with open eyes. To be an artist or to see art - only an artist can see
art - one needs to be able to look AND to see and this depends on certain
personal conditions as a state of one's development. Then maybe life can
be perceived as art because one is relating and responding in a creative
way to whatever shows up...
"We are the expression
of an amazing artist." This is a beautiful poetic image. This image probably
is coming out of the expression of an artist due to his experience within
his process of personal transformation. Indeed there is something authentic
expressed. If we are the expression of an artist, then we as an expression
are representing and also expressing the artist: as the artwork and the
creator are one and can't be seperated.They are only seen as separated
due to a lack of perception. Obviously people are no artwork by themselves,
but they can grow into it; then when they have completed the creative process
within themselves. Yes, life is art: when we are artists of life...
Life
is a state of mind?
BeiYin: You
wrote: "Art is a state of mind". You are saying this as an artist? This
you should explain. In my view the mind can be used in a creative process
but often it is more an obstacle than of help. Art for sure is NOT a state
of mind, it is the expression of one's existence in a growing process mostly
unconscious and during one's creative process part of one's unconscious
background is lightened up; of course the mind is involved in it.
I believe it is possible
to do the business part as an artist, but this will depend what kind of
artist one is or better said if one is an artist at all. If as an artist
one needs to survive with the money making with one's art, then probably
one is not an artist. But if the need to express oneself is the most important
and even stronger than the need to survive, then one is an artist. If one
is trying to make money with one's self expression, that might be possible
if the expression lays within the taste, fashion and 'zeitgeist' of the
momentary epoch. If one is absorbed by one's work because this is the most
important, then better to look for somebody who can do the selling and
dealing with gallery owners. If one can't find somebody for this and it
is to hard to do it oneself, then one should look for a job which gives
enough money to survive and gives the freedom to express oneself how one
need it without thinking about any money aspect. If you ask me how I survive
then I tell you that I do what feels right and what I need to feel good,
expressing myself in a way which fits best: at the moment I am writing,
sometimes poetry, that feels best to me. I don't care where food comes
from or money and I can ensure you that there is always enough and in abundance.
As long as you worry about it you are staying stuck and limiting the flow
of abundance. If this is part of your artistic process, then you will free
yourself. As a growing process it has enough power by itself - like every
growing process - and you can trust that it will guide you through it and
through your life what includes your necessities. I wish you light...
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