“Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.” MayArtFormArtistCertainValuesSocialReligiousCommonQualityMoralGroupsStyleEmotionalParticularExpressionPersonalityInnovationIndividualityCommunicateMeaningfulVisibleBroadsOutlookAestheticsFixingCommon GroundMoral Life Book:Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society Source: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society
“They don't encourage quality today. When I was coming along, Columbia Records would sit with you and assume it would take two or three albums to get the act where it needed to be. Then the company would structure its promotion based on one, two or three years. They encouraged quality and innovation - that's why groups like the Beatles would use sitars, string orchestras and so forth.” YearsTwoUseTodayThreeQualityCompanyRecordsGroupsNeededInnovationStructureAssumingAlbumsStringsThree YearsOrchestraPromotionColumbia Author:Ramsey Lewis
“The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with Christ. So, I think Barbarian Way was my attempt to say, "Look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from God, and what is fueling this is something really ancient." That's what was really the core of The Barbarian Way.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingLooksKindHardWholeTogetherMovingIndividualChristStepsCreativityGroupsInnovationAncientCoreInventionFuelMysticismMysticalBarbariansCreativity And Innovation Author:Erwin McManus
“Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation?” HumansGivenHuman BeingsTechnologyGroupsConsequenceInnovationBombsTechnologicalSpearsChoosy Author:Stephanie Mills