G. Steve Journal

Deep Pleasure

Artist David Hockney reflects on how our perception of the world may be determined, in part, by what we choose to pay attention to:

"I do get a deep pleasure from looking," he says. "I mean, I can look at a little puddle on a road in Yorkshire and just have the rain falling on it and think it's marvelous. ... I see the world as very beautiful."

Vital Experience

 

Every work of art expresses, more or less purely, more or less subtly, not feelings and emotions which the artist has, but feelings and emotions which the artist knows; his insight into the nature of sentience, his pictures of vital experience, physical and emotive and fantastic.

                                                                                                                    –– Susanne Langer

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