The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.
Interpretation
Art is created from the collective experiences of the people and should be returned to them beautifully, allowing for self-reflection.
This quote by Federico Garcia Lorca expresses the idea that artistic expressions such as poems, songs, and pictures originate from the shared life and experiences of society. It emphasizes that these creations should be presented back to the community in a way that resonates with beauty, enabling individuals to gain insights about themselves and their collective identity through the art.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion on the importance of community in the creation of art.
The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.
Death laid its eggs in the wound
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.
I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
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