G. Steve Journal

The Right Thing

 

It is almost unimportant whether a work finds an understanding audience.

One has to do it because one believes that it is the right thing to do.

                                                                    – Pina Bausch

 

Illumination

Author Niall Williams in his novel of rural Ireland, "This Is Happiness" describes the essence of art:

"It seems to me the quality that makes any book, music, painting worthwhile is life, just that. Books, music, painting are not life, can never be as full, rich, complex, surprising or beautiful, but the best of them can catch an echo of that, can turn you back to look out the window, go out the door aware that you’ve been enriched, that you have been in the company of something above that has caused you to realize once again how astonishing life is, and you leave the book, gallery or concert hall with that illumination, which feels I’m going to say holy, by which I mean human raptness."