an image (untitled, after lunch at the Lakeview in Toronto, I was struck by the beauty of Dundas and Ossington):
A quote from André Questcequecest:
We have our life not because we wish to have it. … With conscious effort some people try to be great artists, but they can never succeed. Yet, without knowing how, the great artists spontaneously become artists. With conscious effort some people try to be sages, but they can never succeed. Yet, without knowing how, the sages spontaneously become sages. Not only that, the sages and artists are difficult to be imitated, we cannot even be fools, or dogs, by simply wishing and trying to be.
Kuo Hsiang in Chuang Tzu, A New Selected Translation with an Exposition of the Philosophy of Kuo Hsiang, Yu-Lan Fung (trans.), (New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1964), p. 155.
A Fragment from the minutes of the Executive Council:
They say art is in the eye of the beholder, something which is usually taken as a diplomatic and euphemistic way to agree to disagree. It implies that there is no general standard for aesthetic judgement. I think it’s more useful to take this statement quite literally: The art is in the beholding, the perception; and the piece, the art-thing itself, merely delivers the art. It’s more the truck than the goods.
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