A Lake That Is Noisy Cannot Reflect

Silence Is, After All, The Context For The Deepest Appreciation Of Art: The Only Important Evaluations Are Finally, Personal, Interior Ones.

Why Do Most Great Pictures Look Uncontrived? Why Do Photographers Bother With The Deception, Especially Since It So Often Requires The Hardest Work Of All? The Answer Is, I Think, That The Deception Is Necessary If The Goal Of Art Is To Be Reached: Only Pictures That Look As If They Had Been Easily Made Can Convincingly Suggest That Beauty Is Commonplace.

Philosophy Can Forsake Too Easily The Details Of Experience… Many Writers And Painters Have Demonstrated That Thinking Long About What Art Is Or Ought To Be Ruins The Power To Write Or Paint.

...assume That Art Begins In Unhappiness. True, The Goal Of Art Is To Convey A Vision Of Coherence And Peace, But The Effort To Develop That Vision Starts In The More Common Experience Of Confusion And Pain.

Let Go Of The Thoughts, Let Go Of The Mind, Let Go Of Everything. Let Go! Drop It! Drop Everything. Hold Onto Nothing.