Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
The Internet tempts us to think that because an email or a new website can be accessed in seconds that everything works at the same instant speed. Art is more like the growth of a plant. It needs time and space.
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part.