I am very much on the learning processes right now. How do we learn and how can I be better and learn new stuff. There's a lot I'd like to learn, so I need to understand how to learn fast!
I was doing some research on "learning how to draw". Something I have always wanted to do. Sketches on a notebook. Capturing the essence of somebody with a pen. Great!
I have discovered this book about art and fear called: "Art and fear"! On the back cover it says:
"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."
From what I have heard, it is a great book and my point here is not to criticize a book I have not read! But the thing is:
- There is no ordinary art. There is your art and the art other people do. None of this is ordinary because only you can produce your art. It is unique and if you don't give it the world, we all lose. That's the thing.
- There is no such thing as a genius. Mozart was not a genius. Mozart was a man who did extraordinary things, showing us how wonderful we can all become. The purpose of Mozart, other than his music, is to show the magnificence of human beings, not to get us all frustrated because he had something we don't. With your work, with your nature, with what originates from you, you can achieve some of what Mozart has achieved. You can. Really.
I was doing some research on "learning how to draw". Something I have always wanted to do. Sketches on a notebook. Capturing the essence of somebody with a pen. Great!
I have discovered this book about art and fear called: "Art and fear"! On the back cover it says:
"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially—statistically speaking—there aren't any people like that. Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."
From what I have heard, it is a great book and my point here is not to criticize a book I have not read! But the thing is:
- There is no ordinary art. There is your art and the art other people do. None of this is ordinary because only you can produce your art. It is unique and if you don't give it the world, we all lose. That's the thing.
- There is no such thing as a genius. Mozart was not a genius. Mozart was a man who did extraordinary things, showing us how wonderful we can all become. The purpose of Mozart, other than his music, is to show the magnificence of human beings, not to get us all frustrated because he had something we don't. With your work, with your nature, with what originates from you, you can achieve some of what Mozart has achieved. You can. Really.
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