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Bassist

Peter London, born on September 28, 1982, is a talented bassist known for his unique playing style and profound musical understanding in the music industry.

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Famous Peter London Quotes

“It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things.”

World Art Happens Would Be Art Is Discovery Consequence Tasks Aim Objectives Description Accurate

Author:Peter London

“Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be.”

World Mind Moments Given Imagination Quality Failing Release

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.”

World Artist Effort Creative Chaos Naked Vulnerable Artistic Vulnerability Cosmos Indifferent Nothingness Endeavour

Author:Peter London

“Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after.”

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.”

May Art Important Self Lying Song Steps Practice Art Is Roots Function Instruments Sacred Entertainment Recognition Communion Dance Steps

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.”

Art Artist Awareness Experiments Expanding

Author:Peter London

“We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.”

World Art Seems Lying Lost Growth Beauty Design This World Empowerment Function Personal Growth Profound Contact Collectives Communion

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one.”

Mean Art Natural Loss Wise Generations Expression Terrible Art Is Myth Significant Unnecessary Good Art Depriving

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

About the Author

Born: September 28, 1982
Known for: Bassist
Quotes: 8

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