Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
Interpretation
Art encourages us to discover and bring forth beauty, even from difficult situations.
This quote by Toni Morrison emphasizes the transformative power of art in our lives. It suggests that no matter how tragic or challenging our circumstances may be, art has the ability to reveal beauty and invite us to appreciate it, fostering resilience and hope amidst adversity.
In practice
In a speech about creativity, one could refer to this quote to illustrate the importance of finding beauty in hardship.
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
I'm suspicious of the idea of categories in music and this idea of things being in boxes. To me, that seems unnatural. I write the music that somebody with my biography would write, and the thing that's always driven me is an enthusiasm for the material. I sort of follow the notes to where they want to go.
I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.
Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.
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