From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jun 12 2004 - 22:05:50 BST
Dear Marsha,
> It's nice to know you paint. Painting is wonderful. I've learned more
> about life through painting these last few years then all the years before.
> It's slaying dragons and planting gardens.
Nicely put. As you know, Winston Churchill painted and, typically, wrote
about it as only he could. Thought you might enjoy some of his words on
the subject:
"Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's
journey."
"Happy are the painters for they shall not be lonely. Light and color,
peace and hope will keep them company to the end of the day."
"Whatever worries of the hour, once the picture has begun to flow along
there is no room for them in the mental screen."
"Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle."
"When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first
million years in painting, and so to get to the bottom of the subject."
To add a relevant quote about art from Pirsig, he wrote:
"First, there were moral codes that established the supremacy of
biological life over inanimate nature. Second, there were moral codes that
established the supremacy of the social order over biological life-
conventional morals -proscriptions against drugs, murder, adultery, theft
and the like. Third, there were moral codes that established the supremacy
of the intellectual order over the social order-democracy, trial by jury,
freedom of speech, freedom of the press. Finally there's a fourth Dynamic
morality which isn't a code. He supposed you could call it a "code of Art"
or something like that, but art is usually thought of as such a frill that
that title undercuts its importance." (Lila, 13)
Churchill certainly understood Dynamic Quality, the "code of art."
Best regards,
Platt
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