“The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place.” IdeasWholeLastsRichMessagesPagesArgumentAll ThingsConnectionsUltimateFilledNotesSupremeChainsPassagesArchitectFragmentsSecuredNamelessEmbroideryRumination Author:Russell Sherman
“As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?” HeartSoulRealityArtistViolenceBlessingProtectConnectionsMiseryMultipleReportersPortraitsConsolationPsychiatristIntricateReassuranceAssembling Author:Russell Sherman
“Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.” WayArtProcessActivityReflectionArt IsConnectionsEssenceNotesMusicalPatternsSurfaceConcentrationContrastMundaneCommentaryAffinityMusical Notes Author:Russell Sherman
