Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.
Interpretation
Music conveys deep meanings that often transcend understanding.
Jordan Peterson highlights the enigmatic nature of music and its ability to convey intrinsic meanings that resonate on a personal level. Despite our attempts to analyze and comprehend music, it often retains a mysterious quality that evokes profound emotional responses, suggesting that the essence of music is complex and may never be fully understood.
In practice
In a discussion about the impact of art on culture.
Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.
If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. Itβs usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.
Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.
Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
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