Knowing

Of Knowing:

there’s a subtle difference here in terms of what we truly know, that we can only know something right now, immediate, and fresh to the mind and senses — but knowledge is the accumulation of all we’ve learned, with an often dry quality of history being memorized and repeated. There’s value to both knowledge and knowing, yet only one is vibrantly alive, fresh within the present moment, and feeding our present curiosity to directly know and express the deeper meaning of the world.

we thrive on the experience of knowing.

and that’s really the art of being alive, our ability to know things directly just by contact and experience and by this we gain a sense of creativity through which we express ourselves with new and present meaning. That’s art, always vibrant, and even a past work of any creative display will again capture our attention with every new viewing. Creativity is never about knowledge, although it can be a useful tool in many ways, but it’s always our ability to perceive the world through the ready moment of the senses that we truly come to express our greatest and most creative truth to the world. Art is created right now, only now, and even later in display this aliveness is a force that gains and holds our attention. Any knowledge of art or artist is simply a memory and not a true part of aliveness.