yamamota_tsunetoma on Nostr: Reading the words of a well-known Japanese poet and writer made me think deeply. This ...
Reading the words of a well-known Japanese poet and writer made me think deeply. This is about the relationship between art and life.
He stated that those who, for one reason or another, live a life of a fighter, experience brutality, exercise violence because it's necessary and risk it for something, desire and produce a calm and serene art. A quiet art.
If I have to look at some of my old youthful works I realize how turbulent and destabilizing they were. I myself have often described them as a "brutal boulder". I was happy with my art, without realizing how monotonous my life was after all. Lively only on the surface, but in reality simple, and often devoid of sacrifice and struggle.
So I realized how right he was.
Those who fight and risk themselves don't need turbulent and aggressive art, because they live it every day.
He stated that those who, for one reason or another, live a life of a fighter, experience brutality, exercise violence because it's necessary and risk it for something, desire and produce a calm and serene art. A quiet art.
If I have to look at some of my old youthful works I realize how turbulent and destabilizing they were. I myself have often described them as a "brutal boulder". I was happy with my art, without realizing how monotonous my life was after all. Lively only on the surface, but in reality simple, and often devoid of sacrifice and struggle.
So I realized how right he was.
Those who fight and risk themselves don't need turbulent and aggressive art, because they live it every day.