diary

my barest soul (cont'd)

1. Restless mind

I looked at works as diverse as Wu Changshuo and Brice Marden, as well as the Carnegie 1991 artists. I think I understood John Cage's work well. On the other hand, Wu Changshuo took thirty years to learn to paint the plum blossoms. How much longer should I study from Nature!

2. Philosophy in art and life (Quotes I cherish and try to live by --cont'd)

a) I would like to beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books in a foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

b) Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn't force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, and learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything! (Rainer Maria Rilke)

posted by sin @ 9:47 PM