CREATIVE VISION FOR ART AND FOR LIFE
Richard Guggenheimer
Explains that seeing life as a whole is an innate instinct within humanity, and that this way of seeing is the root to all great art, philosophy, and science.
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"The sense of the beautiful seems to be directly referable to the quality of wholeness or relatedness that underlies the apparently separate parts and incidents of being."
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"Seeing whole provides us with many insights. It even enables us to suspect that we endure, that our life is not a span of time bounded by a beginning and an end."
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"All states of being, seen in principle, are simultaneous in the eternal now." Rene Guenon, 'La Metaphysique Orientale'
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"We bathe in an atmosphere traversed by great spiritual currents."
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"To see soundly is to see whole."
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"Beyond all other arts is the art of being. The need is not merely to have vision but to live it. To be, beautifully; this is the goal of our highest destiny and the clue to our eternity."
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"Never in all the reaches of history has there been precisely You before, and if you know how to value and cultivate the essence of your innermost sense and sentiencies, you become a creative element in the whole dynamic system."
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"The human spirit likes to see things whole. Emotionally and intuitionally we seek the sum of the parts as surely as we want the ending to an unfinished theme."
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"This sense of rounded completeness is always in man's mind as a background hope to all his thoughts and activities. He imagines his own lifetime to have a rounded completeness."
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"A mathematical concept or a moral concept may lead as certainly toward a sense of beauty as may a strictly aesthetic one."
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"What we see is no more and no less than what we are."
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"A person of wisdom and generosity can lift the entire level of behavior around him by the assumption of goodness that he projects upon his associates. He looks upon what he finds good in them with love, and they are favorably affected."
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"The artist achieves by intuition, feeling, and perception of form what the scientist aims at by logic and exploration. In science, as in art, the essential drive is toward seeing whole."
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"The Beautiful is the Now, boundless continuum. This is the eternity to which we belong. Our eternity is now."
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"Whenever man experiences what he calls the beautiful, he enjoys a sense of growth in the direction of integration. It gives him an insight into the quality of wholeness or relatedness that underlies the apparently separate parts and incidents of being."
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"The truth revealed by art, by science, by intuition, by thought, is the timeless, sizeless Form of Selfhood and pure being."
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"The essential point emerging from the observations and conclusions of today's science is that the fundamental drive behind human progress and purpose issues from a continuous rise in levels of organization."
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"There is a profound relationship between creativity and quality of human character."
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"Maturing vision depends increasingly upon two necessities: inward development of self, and communication between growing selves at the altitudes of their subtlest insights."
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"Art is the humble and marvelous image of the cosmic order itself….The spirit of the forms is one." Elie Faure
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"Minds that are peculiarly sensitive to relatedness, to qualities of wholeness in experience, gradually build up a conditioned aptness to recognize evidence of such possibilities more and more infallibly."
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"Inward development of self, communication between growing selves at the altitudes of their subtlest insights; these are essential to the way forward. Deep introspection, but not alone. Introspection propelled by the incitement of shared discovery."
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"Relatedness is both the goal of our searching and the facilitating means."
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"The character structure of the mature and integrated personality, the productive character, constitutes the source and the basis of virtue." Erich Fromm
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"Without virtue a man is not able to confer upon his works the spirit of great art."
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