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The deeper we immerse ourselves in this quiet contemplation the more meaningful it becomes, Our twentieth century, Occidental culture does not encourage serene contemplation. We are under the considerable compulsion of an obsession, an expediency obsession. The dynamic of our society, based on competitive drives, tend to stimulate the go toward aggression and away from receptivity.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
Conviction by feeling is not always so vague as it seems. Some of the things to which man clings, calling them felt truths, are so called only because he is not able to adduce tangible proofs to their reality. But frequently, if he applies himself to a thorough examination of all the concrete and theoretical testimonies by which he has persuaded himself to believe certain things, he finds that subconsciously he has really accumulated quite solid structures of logical justification. Intelligence often later supplies proofs of what intuition has long since suspected and proposed
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
The actual happening of things is characterized by flow, by something more perfect than consecutiveness—a sort of incessant flowering.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
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