intpgolfer
24 Dec 2006, 04:04 PM
I am an INTP with no artistic talent - except an appreciation - and this article by the late Mr. Harris helped me better understand why I am such an amature - I have always focused on the notes ...
... not the pauses?
1. "Why did mark twain say of shakespere - the pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, the geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however felicitous could ever accomplish it? "
2. "Is art - be it music, or sculpture, or poetry - really about how to make a pregnant pause" - and is that why most artists are introverts?
3. "Why can anybody, with practice, play the notes in a Schubert sonata - but to play the pauses between the notes - Ahh, is that where the art resides? "
4. "Why is the amateur always explicit - he finishes every sentence, draws every line, and plays every note with the same value. He leaves nothing to the imagination of the audience - but the master pauses between notes - and that is where the art resides? "
5. "Why does the eye not see reality - when we look at a chair, we do not see the real chair, but an object that is more or less an opitical illusion. The real chair is a mass of particles moving at incredible speeds with ceaseless energy. And is all art and life including human, as incredible as chairs? "
-- Best of Sydney J. Harris - It's the pause that counts in art
... not the pauses?
1. "Why did mark twain say of shakespere - the pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, the geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however felicitous could ever accomplish it? "
2. "Is art - be it music, or sculpture, or poetry - really about how to make a pregnant pause" - and is that why most artists are introverts?
3. "Why can anybody, with practice, play the notes in a Schubert sonata - but to play the pauses between the notes - Ahh, is that where the art resides? "
4. "Why is the amateur always explicit - he finishes every sentence, draws every line, and plays every note with the same value. He leaves nothing to the imagination of the audience - but the master pauses between notes - and that is where the art resides? "
5. "Why does the eye not see reality - when we look at a chair, we do not see the real chair, but an object that is more or less an opitical illusion. The real chair is a mass of particles moving at incredible speeds with ceaseless energy. And is all art and life including human, as incredible as chairs? "
-- Best of Sydney J. Harris - It's the pause that counts in art