Willem de Kooning on How to Be an Artist

Willem de Kooning on How to Be an Artist - By Alexxa Gotthardt (Artsy)

Importance of Playing

https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/428591107680283/ https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=428591107680283

Francis Bacon on How to Be an Artist

“I want a very ordered image, but I want it to have come about by chance,” he told Sylvester in the same 1966 interview. He believed that through embracing spontaneity—and accepting “accidents” as integral aspects of the composition—he’d achieve true emotional candor. Spontaneous marks and images, for the artist, resembled the unexpected welling up of passionate, unbridled feelings."

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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up" 
- Pablo Picasso 

"In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play."
- Friedrich Nietzsche 

"Would you call a child being obsessed with play?"

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-cave-digger-hewing-art-from-the-very-landscape/

The Future, by Clarke and Fuller

 

«If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done».

- Buckminster Fuller

Original post by the Zeitgeist Movement (26/03/2014)

What makes us human? Doing pointless things for fun

Silly Walk march in Brno, Czech Republic (2014), inspired by the Ministry of Silly Walks by Monty Python

"Playfulness is what makes us human. Doing pointless, purposeless things, just for fun. Doing things for the sheer devilment of it. Being silly for the sake of being silly. Larking around. Taking pleasure in activities that do not advantage us and have nothing to do with our survival. These are the highest signs of intelligence. It is when a creature, having met and surmounted all the practical needs that face him, decides to dance that we know we are in the presence of a human. It is when a creature, having successfully performed all necessary functions, starts to play the fool, just for the hell of it, that we know he is not a robot."

Continue to read in New Statesman

(http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/plays-thing)