The Naked Painter
Illustration, painting, mixed media and graphic design.
person’s mind is accessible to another’s is just a conversational illusion, just a
figure of speech, an assumption that makes some kind of exchange between
basically alien creatures seem plausible, and that really the relationship of
one person to another is ultimately unknowable. The effort of fathoming
what is in another’s mind creates a distortion of what is seen. I’m trying, I
suppose, for some situation in which whatever it is emerges undistorted.
The way he asks all those questions, I don’t know."
The walls of the canyon here are completely vertical now. In many places
room for the road had to be blasted out of it. No alternate routes here. Just
whichever way the river goes. It may be just my imagination, but it seems
the river’s already smaller than it was an hour ago.
Such personal transcendence of conflicts with technology doesn’t have to
involve motorcycles, of course. It can be at a level as simple as sharpening a
kitchen knife or sewing a dress or mending a broken chair. The underlying
problems are the same. In each case there’s a beautiful way of doing it and
an ugly way of doing it, and in arriving at the high-quality, beautiful way of
doing it, both an ability to see what “looks good” and an ability to
understand the underlying methods to arrive at that “good” are needed.
Both classic and romantic understandings of Quality must be combined.
Such personal transcendence of conflicts with technology doesn’t have to
involve motorcycles, of course. It can be at a level as simple as sharpening a
kitchen knife or sewing a dress or mending a broken chair. The underlying
problems are the same. In each case there’s a beautiful way of doing it and
an ugly way of doing it, and in arriving at the high-quality, beautiful way of
doing it, both an ability to see what “looks good” and an ability to
understand the underlying methods to arrive at that “good” are needed.
Both classic and romantic understandings of Quality must be combined.
The nature of our culture is such that if you were to look for instruction in
how to do any of these jobs, the instruction would always give only one
understanding of Quality, the classic. It would tell you how to hold the blade
when sharpening the knife, or how to use a sewing machine, or how to mix
and apply glue with the presumption that once these underlying methods
were applied, “good” would naturally follow. The ability to see directly what
“looks good” would be ignored.
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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Your writing pattern is intriguing and whimsical. So please, write more.
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Reasons why I love 4chan, number 5674392…
FUCKING THIS
people need to realise we’re ALL getting fucked by the man. Divisions in race, gender and ethnic group are exploited by THE MAN in order to further an agenda of control, divide and conquer tactics being used by a wealthy elite to make sure each of us is too busy fighting our neighbours, our neighbours who we should love and cherish, to see what’s really going on. Overcome our differences, look past the media and hollywood propaganda and rise up against the bloated corporate oligarchy looking to enslave us all!
