CREATIVE VISION FOR ART AND FOR LIFE
Richard Guggenheimer
Explains that seeing life as a whole is an innate instinct within humanity, and that this way of seeing is the root to all great art, philosophy, and science.
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"Man questions; the artist in him answers. The answer is as true as the vision is sound."
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"The truth revealed by art, by science, by intuition, by thought, is the timeless, sizeless Form of Selfhood and pure being."
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"The sense of the beautiful seems to be directly referable to the quality of wholeness or relatedness that underlies the apparently separate parts and incidents of being."
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"Man's art offers the gift of music out of mere sound, of wisdom out of awareness, of love out of indifference. These are difficult transmutations. They are accomplished by the alchemy of only the purest motivation."
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"In physics, in biology, in aesthetics, this same Unitary Principle obtains; it is as though the tensions and pressures of conflicting forms in unstable irresolution ultimately find, by their own inner urgencies, and nature's purposive design, a mergent stability, a higher function in the mounting architecture….there seems to be a goal that is as inherently magnetic to all protoplasm and organism as to man himself."
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"Without virtue a man is not able to confer upon his works the spirit of great art."
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"Everything in the continuum of pure being is eternally new."
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"The true artist sees the harmony, the wholeness, the tendencies toward perfection in things everywhere."
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"We must measure reality by man's inner and higher nature. It is the only way to a creative vision of today's world."
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"We must nurture and not kill such germinations of faith as come to us through the ardor of our best meditations, the illumination of our most inspired dreams, the flash of vision."
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"Beyond all other arts is the art of being. The need is not merely to have vision but to live it. To be, beautifully; this is the goal of our highest destiny and the clue to our eternity."
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"The me-ness of me, the you-ness of you, seek communion at the levels of our highest intentions."
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"The character structure of the mature and integrated personality, the productive character, constitutes the source and the basis of virtue." Erich Fromm
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"The essential point emerging from the observations and conclusions of today's science is that the fundamental drive behind human progress and purpose issues from a continuous rise in levels of organization."
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"Events form highly integrated patterns and there is a deep relatedness running through all things."
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"The human spirit likes to see things whole. Emotionally and intuitionally we seek the sum of the parts as surely as we want the ending to an unfinished theme."
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"What we see is no more and no less than what we are."
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"Maturing vision depends increasingly upon two necessities: inward development of self, and communication between growing selves at the altitudes of their subtlest insights."
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"An intelligent being carries within him the wherewithal to surpass himself." Henri Bergson
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"Never in all the reaches of history has there been precisely You before, and if you know how to value and cultivate the essence of your innermost sense and sentiencies, you become a creative element in the whole dynamic system."
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"Underlying continuity seems to characterize the flow and the flowering of all that occurs, and seems to indicate that while all things happen gradually in the time sense of human beings they may be happening instantaneously in the more absolute sense of final truth."
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"To see soundly is to see whole."
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"In the unified experience of reality the whole process of creation…is a single timeless moment of Divine self-manifestation." R. A. Nicholson, 'Commentary on Rumi'
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"The Beautiful is the Now, and this is the eternity to which we belong."
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"Art at its most elevated is not so dependent upon skill as upon virtue. Virtue is pre-eminent dedication to a life of truth."
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