“Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.” MayIdeasCommunityProfessionMedicalIntimateContributionMedical Profession Author:Lewis Hyde
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.” KnowsDoeArtMatterInspirationArtistVoiceCommunityMemoriesKnowingMastersFindingsCreatingChaosOneselfInventionVoidDiscourseVocationAwakenedAdoptingPurifying Author:Lewis Hyde
“We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born into the stories told of each of these.” StoriesBodyNationsSexBornCommunityRaceSituationParticularAncestor Author:Lewis Hyde
“All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity.” ThinkingWorldShouldMindWellsMayStatesArtistCommunityCreativityTraditionScientistLuckStudiosFacultyStand AloneMoney PowerPower Politics Book:Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership Source: Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
