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Appreciation
ART
Appreciation
“Art resides in the quality of doing;
process is not magic”.
Charles Eames,
“To labor in the arts for any reason other than
love is prostitution”.
Steven Pressfield
in The War of Art
“Art is not a thing—it is a way”.
Elbert Hubbard
in a 1908 volume of
Little Journeys to
the Homes of Great Teachers
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose
ourselves at the same time”.
Thomas Merton in
No Man Is An Island
“Art begins with resistance—at the point where
resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece
has ever been created without great labor”.
André Gide
in Poétique
•Art is something that is
perennially around us. Some people
may deny having to do with the arts
but it is indisputable that life
presents us with many forms of art
and opportunities for communion
with the art.
ART is
Pharaoh’s
suit /
Sculpture
Budd
ha
(STATUE)
Hieroglyphic
s
Rice Terraces
Eiffel Tower
Merlion
Tower of Pisa
Nature is not ART
One important characteristic of art is that it
is not nature. Art is man’s expression of his
reception of nature. Art is man’s way of
interpreting nature. Art is not nature. Art is
made by man, whereas nature is a given
around us. It is this juncture that they can
be considered opposites.
Movies are not meant to be direct
representation of reality. They may,
according to the moviemaker’s
perception of reality, be a
reinterpretation or even distortion of
nature.
• When one says that he has an experience of
something, he often means that he knows
what that something is about. When one
claims that he has experienced falling in love,
getting hurt, and bouncing back, he in effect
claims that he knows the (something) endless
cycle of loving.
Art involves
Experience
• When someone claims he has an
experience of something, he often
means that he knows what that
something is about.