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RESOURCES
I intend for theses pages to offer a growing body of resources that
may be of interest to others. In some way each thing has enriched and
guided my life and work. The resources will include texts, poems, interesting
quotes, websites, exhibitions and events etc…
I have begun this resources page with some interesting
quotes
Quotes
On Art
‘Art cannot be understood through the intellect,
but is felt through an emotion presenting some analogy with a religious
faith or a sexual attraction – an aesthetic echo.’
Marcel Duchamp
‘The ‘victim’ of an aesthetic
echo, Duchamp continued, ‘is in a position comparable to that
of a man in love, or of a believer, who dismisses automatically his
demanding ego and, helpless, submits to a pleasurable and mysterious
constraint. While exercising his taste, he adopts a commanding attitude.
When touched by the aesthetic revelation, the same man, in an almost
ecstatic mood, becomes receptive and humble’
Bonnie Clearwater, ed., West Coast Duchamp
(Miami Beach: Grassfield Press, 1991), 107.
On Buddhism and Art
At the fourth meeting of the Awake consortium,
Buddhist activist Joanna Macy described Engaged Buddhism as the application
of the teachings of the Buddha
“...to our current situation through understanding our true interdependent
nature, through affirming this understanding and schooling it through
our behaviour – right action, right effort, right livelihood,
right speech – and through de-conditioning our minds through mental
practice.”
Jacqueline Baas and Mary Jane Jacob
p.23 preface to ‘Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art’
“If we’re really engaged in mindfulness
while painting…then we will consider the act of each mark (each
movement) we make as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts
like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality”
Thich Nhat Hang
On Awareness
‘Awareness is very important. We are here,
nowhere else. Since we are here, why not be here?’
Chogyam Trungpa
