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When was the last time you looked at anything, solely, and concentratedly, and for its own sake? We find we are not very good at looking.* ______________ When you say “This work has nothing to do with me.” When you say “This work is boring/pointless/silly/obscure/élitist etc.,” you might be right, because you are looking at a fad, or you might be wrong because the work falls so outside of the safety of your own experience that in order to keep your own world intact, you must deny the other world of the painting. This denial of imaginative experience happens at a deeper level than our affirmation of our daily world. Every day, in countless ways, you and I convince ourselves about ourselves. True #art, when it happens to us, challenges the “I” that we are. -Jeanette Winterson cc: Brain Pickings
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 01:50:57 +0000

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