I once read a quote from David Lynch, which I can’t fully remember, but the gist of it was that his characters experience anger and sorrow because that works well in a story, but they are poisonous to him as the artist. It seems like another paradox - that in order to make art or engage with it, you have to be absorbed, but at the same t…
I once read a quote from David Lynch, which I can’t fully remember, but the gist of it was that his characters experience anger and sorrow because that works well in a story, but they are poisonous to him as the artist. It seems like another paradox - that in order to make art or engage with it, you have to be absorbed, but at the same time detached. You know it’s some kind of representation of reality not reality itself. It strikes me that many spiritual and religious paths promote detachment and maybe artistic distance can be thought of as somewhat related. But it’s Lynch, so who knows. Re: the sublime, I’ve often wondered why these states occur. Someone well-versed in yoga philosophy (not me) might say something about having access to bliss, or higher states like the sublime, once you’ve relaxed and quieted the monkey mind. The rub there would be that the more you try to understand or analyze these states, the further you get from having access to experiencing them.
I once read a quote from David Lynch, which I can’t fully remember, but the gist of it was that his characters experience anger and sorrow because that works well in a story, but they are poisonous to him as the artist. It seems like another paradox - that in order to make art or engage with it, you have to be absorbed, but at the same time detached. You know it’s some kind of representation of reality not reality itself. It strikes me that many spiritual and religious paths promote detachment and maybe artistic distance can be thought of as somewhat related. But it’s Lynch, so who knows. Re: the sublime, I’ve often wondered why these states occur. Someone well-versed in yoga philosophy (not me) might say something about having access to bliss, or higher states like the sublime, once you’ve relaxed and quieted the monkey mind. The rub there would be that the more you try to understand or analyze these states, the further you get from having access to experiencing them.