Emotion is energy, whether active or passive.
But emotion is neither vision nor clarity of purpose, and each requires reason.
One must rebel, first and foremost, against irrationality. The artist must see, and the composer must hear, those things that go unseen and unheard in the self-immolation of superficiality and the tyranny of the media-directed spirit of the day, else perish in mediocrity.
The shadows fall in the surrounding world as if the presence of something uncanny announces itself, seizing the attention as if by mystic force. It is here, an opportunity for shade against the heat, and it appears suddenly and strangely to the distracted mind, as if it is always no more than a mere image, and light years away from common experience. Lose the facts of reality and lose culture, and life.
But emotion is neither vision nor clarity of purpose, and each requires reason.
One must rebel, first and foremost, against irrationality. The artist must see, and the composer must hear, those things that go unseen and unheard in the self-immolation of superficiality and the tyranny of the media-directed spirit of the day, else perish in mediocrity.
The shadows fall in the surrounding world as if the presence of something uncanny announces itself, seizing the attention as if by mystic force. It is here, an opportunity for shade against the heat, and it appears suddenly and strangely to the distracted mind, as if it is always no more than a mere image, and light years away from common experience. Lose the facts of reality and lose culture, and life.
