I wrote something similar: "To write is to wade, alone, into the vast, murky ocean of thought and idea. It is equal parts treading water and drowning, a haphazard stumbling toward insight and inspiration. It is plumbing into the depths of your soul, groping around to grab hold of something true and real and unique and you. It is casting and reeling, changing the tackle and hoping that the Big One doesn’t just nibble at your hook, but firmly latches on. And that you can successfully reel it in..."
Henry Miller came closest I think.. but all these express the desire to understand it.. and it cannot be put into words - unless the words come together themselves to form art.
Fascinating array of definitions of art...
I wrote something similar: "To write is to wade, alone, into the vast, murky ocean of thought and idea. It is equal parts treading water and drowning, a haphazard stumbling toward insight and inspiration. It is plumbing into the depths of your soul, groping around to grab hold of something true and real and unique and you. It is casting and reeling, changing the tackle and hoping that the Big One doesn’t just nibble at your hook, but firmly latches on. And that you can successfully reel it in..."
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They're all good, but this one was especially good: "Art is the mathematical result of the emotional desire for beauty." Oscar Wilde
Henry Miller came closest I think.. but all these express the desire to understand it.. and it cannot be put into words - unless the words come together themselves to form art.