How to become a creative person and not become insane? How to find personal strength to become a successful person of art? How to create beauty and masterpieces? Where does beauty come from and what are its laws?
The book will provide its readers with many useful thoughts about philosophy and the nature of art. Very many practical and useful thoughts that show the structure of the world of art. It reveals important issues of human psychology and perception of reality, issues of self-motivation and following through, search for inspiration, issues of competition etc.
The world is an illusion: it's exactly the way …a beholder sees it… *…another detached beholder sees already a different world. * ...the world exists only in the mind of the beholder… * The more a beholder differs from other people the more unique world he's able to observe; ….the more perfect a beholder is …the more perfect experience he can get from his observation.
This world is perfect and only the perfect has value in it. The main way to create perfection is uniqueness and novelty. Because you are the first, you are automatically the best.
Similar people are cheap and very unique ones are useless as no one knows how to gain use from them. It's 5- 50% of novelty and uniqueness in the body that is normal, anything more than that is fatal.
The meaning of modern art is the unity of "to Be, to Have and to Do". In other words, it is not enough to create something, it is important who created it. What matters is why he created it. The dynamics of creation are important. The act of art is important. Movement is life. Art is growth, it is flowering, it is fruiting, it is aggression, it is desire, it is a new taste, it is sex!!! A new feeling. New gesture. A gesture of courage, fearlessness and surprise.
Utopian literature claims that future people will make art and do science. Sadly, it’s an awful scenario. I can’t say anything on men of science for sure, but artists, all these poets, writers and painters …they are very peculiar people, to put it mildly and if, God forbid, all the people become like them, it will be a disaster, after which humanity will certainly die out.
Art is sex... it's novelty, surprise... expression and emotion. BDSM sex, sex is classically beautiful, sex is like a game... Hundreds of different types of sex. Sex is freedom.
Beauty is a manifestation of sexuality. Beauty is sexy. The real art is sex. When you look at real art, you want to reproduce, you are filled with inspiration and fruitfulness... you are literally pregnant with thought and filled with energy, like sperm.
Don't try to win someone else's competition. Understand, the best are your favorites. In other people's contests and ratings, the ones they like best win. Who loves whom has nothing to do with real beauty and perfection.
Creative people are mostly idealists, which is the sin of pride... Idolatry is a grave sin, in fact, it is an attempt to turn yourself into an idol. The devil thought he was the best, too. And went to hell. Therefore, creative natures in their mass are especially unhappy. Although, of course, there are those who, having broken through the bottom, fell from above...
Pattern thinking is when you can only dig a hole underground, and literal thinking allows you to dig tunnels in the air. After all, what is flight if not a banal art digger, turned into art vozduhom, digging tunnels in the air.
An artist can foresee the field in the seed and two kissing sweethearts in the hayloft, the hunger of war in politicians, the bird in the egg, the freedom in the bird.
In any case, there should always be a fly in the ointment, as a symbol of the excess that can always be sacrificed if necessary. Flies need then that sacrifice is useful for business, and to sacrifice the beauty undesirable.
Inventors and people of new thought are saved from unemployment only by the deepest belief of all other people that everything that can be invented has already been invented.
In a barrel of honey with a spoonful of tar, honey is the solvent and tar the medicine. This very aroma of beauty is poison in larger quantities and a medicine and beauty in small ones.
To create beauty, you need to take a little solvent-honey, water or alcohol, and mix it with death, ie something poisonous and disgusting to dilute it.
When you look at a barrel of honey with a spoon of tar, at first you think it's a spoiled barrel of honey and want to throw it away, that's what fools think. At the second stage of thinking you realize that the tar can be removed and then you will have a full barrel of honey-so think smart. In the third stage, you realize that a barrel of honey with a spoon of tar is beauty, where honey is a solvent, and tar is a poison, which is a small amount of medicine. Tar is the salt of life, the source of happiness, joy and reason. So think the perfect and enlightened. Enlightenment and attainment of the third level of truth requires humility.
Flow is, in fact, love. Love for your idea and goal. Flow, which means love, is the source of genius and creativity. Those who have no love are not creative.
