“Η τέχνη είναι ο μόνος τρόπος να δημιουργήσουμε χρόνο, να τον κρατήσουμε στο χέρι μας, ο πραγματικός χρόνος κυλάει μέσα από τα δάκτυλά σαν την άμμο. Αυτή τη βασική ανάγκη του ανθρώπου – τη μελέτη του χρόνου – εξυπηρετεί η τέχνη. Αυτή είναι η βαθύτερη και ουσιαστικότερη αναγακαιότητά της. Λειτούργημα της τέχνης είναι πάντοτε να συγκινεί τον ολόκληρο άνθρωπο, να κάνει το εγώ να ταυτιστεί με κάτι μεγαλύτερο που μπορεί να γίνει δικό του. Η τέχνη δημιουργεί ένα κόσμο που δίνει νόημα, διότι στο έργο τέχνης οι ποιοτικές μεταβολές συντελούνται κατά το εικός και αναγκαίον κι όχι τυχαία και μοιραία όπως γίνεται στην πραγματική ζωή.”
“Art is the composition of perceptual experience into meaningful or significant patterns, and all knowledge and intelligence is a reading or interpretation of such patterns. A myth is a reading of ritualistic patterns, and from myth arises all religion and philosophy. Magic is a reading of animistic symbols, and from magic arises all knowledge of the external world, all science”
“Art must lead beyond the arts, to an awareness and a share of mutuality. A culture is a creation of time, of a time in which the icons made by the artist so work on the imagination of man that they precipitate ideas, communicate feelings, establish human bonds.”
“Philosophy, according to Plato, is based on wonder. ‘The sense of wonder,’ he said, ‘is the mark of the philosopher.’ ‘It is through wonder,’ explained Aristotle, ‘that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too, e.g. about the changes of the moon and the sun, about the stars and the origin of the universe.’ We are all perhaps ready to admit the historical independence of philosophy, but what we forget is that philosophy must be continually renewed by this sense of wonder, and that wonder itself is what I would call a liminal awareness — that is to say, sensation stretched to its physical limits. The arts are the exercises by means of which we stretch the intelligence to these limits, and at these limits renew the sense of wonder.”
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/29/the-forms-of-things-unknown-1963/
