That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
Interpretation
The artist's role is to transform raw elements of nature into something beautiful and illuminating.
This quote emphasizes the transformative power of art and the artist's unique ability to take ordinary, often overlooked materials from the earth and mold them into something that shines with beauty and meaning. It highlights the artist's responsibility to bring forth light and inspiration from darkness, showcasing creativity as a means of revelation and connection between the natural world and the human experience.
In practice
In a speech about creativity at an art school graduation, one could quote this to inspire new artists.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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