Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the transformative power of art and the importance of freeing our minds from self-imposed limitations.
Hakim Bey suggests that true artistic expression allows us to break free from the constraints of our own perceptions and preconceived notions. By doing so, we can harness the power of art to reshape our understanding of reality, turning imaginative visions into tangible truths. Art transcends mere representation; it has the potential to alter the fabric of existence itself by challenging the viewer's mind.
In practice
This quote can be shared at an art exhibition to inspire visitors to look beyond the surface of the artwork.
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
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