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Some thoughts about art and creativity and their place in life. "The artist's role is a subtle one. Artists perceive reality in ways that most people are oblivious to. They see the world with a kind of X-ray vision that enables them to construct aesthetic works layer by layer. Art is much more than self-expression. It's an actual language, a universal language with which one can communicate." Eric Drooker, quoted in Punk Planet, Jan. 2003.

Thinking about art

"Art has the potential of opening to us, in visible form, mystery. The first way to unlock mystery . . . is by looking, looking, looking, and by entering into that mystery with our own creative process." Karen Stone in Image and Spirit: Finding Meaning in Visual Art.

"Only through art can we get outside ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours, and see landscapes that would otherwise have remained unknown to us." Marcel Proust, quoted by Nancy Heller in Why a Painting is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art.

"Every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one."� Walter Brueggeman

My art is �a symbolic representation utilizing abstract cosmological theory and divergent personal whimsy, not applicable to the normality of daily life. The viewer is reminded that the locales of specific entities in this representation are not absolute, but in temporal flux and dependent upon your own visualization of the Universe.� Nathan Thies

�Many say we now live in an information economy or knowledge economy. But what�s more fundamentally true is that we now have an economy powered by human creativity. For creativity is the decisive source of competitive advantage. But it is not a commodity. Creativity comes from people and that means people are the critical resource of the new age.� Richard Florida in The Rise of the Creative Class.

�In a way, things like a museum and Lincoln Center kill art and music. Art is not for particular people but should be in everything you do, in cooking, and, God knows, in the bread on the table, in the way everything is done.� U.S. architect Benjamin C. Thompson

Updated: 14 November 2006