"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This requires a moment of pause--a contract with yourself through the object you look at or the page you read. In that moment of pause, I think life expands. And really the purpose of art--for me, fiction--is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have. That is the moment of finding something which you have not known about yourself, or your environment, about others and about life."
-Jerzy Kosinski
-Jerzy Kosinski
sculptor666:
i think pause is inaccurate... eliminate reaction, withold instinct. if you do that enough, you train yourself to accept things without the involment of structured thought (the ever present battle between logic and emotion or id and ego or grammar and whathaveya)... but at the same time not ignore instinct, because it's there for a reason. also i can't agree with "something you have not known about yourself." people have no chioce but to know themselves (if you can accept ignorance as a definition)... more a matter of awareness... seems healthier to find something in others. it's getting late, and the pixies still aren't any closer than minnesota. shit. 