Art Is About The Mystery (Maybe thats why artists can be a little odd.) - Softcover

Art is About the Mystery explores artists' connections with their inner worlds, to dreams, imagination and fantasy. It offers the view that the role of artists is to explore the border territory at the edge of the human experience, "where one reality encounters another, where light encounters dark, where scariness and beauty mingle, where demons and gods dance." The artist is always at the margin. Nothing creative ever happens at the center. The artist revels in the disequilibrium of things; art emerges out of a disequilibrium in search of a new equilibrium. The creative act itself is the emergence of something new. That is why it is so important to create. Monet's impressionistic art was something new. He blurred the outlines and expressed something that couldn't be expressed any other way. Artists have something in them that is wild, something that is guided and inspired ultimately by imagination. The universe from the beginning has been poised between the expanding and the containing forces, and no one knows if this creative balance will collapse or will continue indefinitely. - Thomas Berry, author (Dream of the Earth), historian, (Issue 21, June 1999, Heron Dance interview) . . . every poet, every artist is an anti-social being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way. Of course the state has the right to chase him away . . . and if he is really an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision. So this business about defending and freeing culture is absurd. - Pablo Picasso The book is 96 pages, 8.5 by 9.25 inches in size, is full color throughout and contains no advertising.