Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.
Interpretation
Abstract art conveys emotions and ideas through non-verbal elements like colors and shapes.
In this quote, Etel Adnan expresses the essence of abstract art as a form of communication that transcends words. It emphasizes the freedom of artistic expression, allowing creators to explore emotions and concepts without the confines of language, suggesting that colors and lines can convey deep feelings and thoughts uniquely and powerfully.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of artistic freedom.
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don’t separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?
Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!
Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.
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