Crispin Sartwell - The Art of Living
There's no real explanation as to why the posts here have been lagging - just the usual excuses about busyness and such. We are reading and discussing and scheming. For now we can throw some quotes your way...
Two nuggets from Sartwell's The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions:
"...the idea is not to become artists or appreciators of art, but to realize we already are artists and appreciators of art. When we are listening to popular music on the radio on the way home from work, we are listening to art that is more typical of and more organically connected to our culture than anything in a museum. When we enjoy a well designed and written advertisement, when we watch a baseball game on television, when we raise our children with devoted care, when we work in absorption in our gardens, we are authentically experiencing art."
"[the Japanese tea ceremony]...is precisely an art of life, an art of eating and drinking and talking and loving nature and other human beings, it encapsulates the basic point of this book: that between life and art no decision is necessary, that we can live our art, that life and art are intimately connected and at their best moments identical."
Two nuggets from Sartwell's The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions:
"...the idea is not to become artists or appreciators of art, but to realize we already are artists and appreciators of art. When we are listening to popular music on the radio on the way home from work, we are listening to art that is more typical of and more organically connected to our culture than anything in a museum. When we enjoy a well designed and written advertisement, when we watch a baseball game on television, when we raise our children with devoted care, when we work in absorption in our gardens, we are authentically experiencing art."
"[the Japanese tea ceremony]...is precisely an art of life, an art of eating and drinking and talking and loving nature and other human beings, it encapsulates the basic point of this book: that between life and art no decision is necessary, that we can live our art, that life and art are intimately connected and at their best moments identical."
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1 Comments:
here's one back at ya, from page 124 of the book:
People are of the order of nature, are always in the process of trying to achieve a mutual adaptation of organism and environment. That situation is a participation in, or perhaps more deeply, an identification with, the world.
Indeed it is worth pointing out that the distinction of the organism from the environment is in itself only a convenience, and is, in any case, fluid. We absorb parts of the environment into ourselves, and eliminate parts of ourselves into the environment. As we move through the environment, the environment, quite literally, moves through us. The materials out of which we are composed, and into which we impress our mark (out of which we construct shelter, for example), are the environment in transformation.
I also love the chapter "The Art of Knowing"...
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