Nothing is objective

I loved this!! Thank you very much!!!

Opinions dont become objective if a lot of people over a long time hold them. Its still subjective, just more supported.

Thanks for this articulation. I have often times fallen in the middle of rational linear ways .. and more expressive and poetic. This is helpful to understand it this way though - both for my painting and my writing. I love the way you teach - offering us the language THAN an example for us to see exactly the dynamic you just described.

Swear to God, you are the tearcher of my DREAMS!!!!

Thank you so much. It shifts my perception of beauty and it’s really meaningful❤️. When I see someone that is simple and elegant that’s what beauty really looks like.

Wow... This is so clearly put. I never thought of that way about painting before you showcased it in this video.

This makes so much sense to the way I am...the way I think and the way I create. Thank you Ian!

Where did you teach meditation? I studied at San Francisco Zen Center under Baker Roshi until 1985

I have had this feeling of connection with my natural surroundings. I was up in the Sierras doing Botanical research on ALPINE MEADOWS ABOVE 10,00 feet back in 1978. We had hiked in to the high Sierra region of Sequoia. Our first settled night. As the sun went down, to the east was a long downhill slope towards the kern river. There were tall granite walls to t her north and south. With this glorious Aspen glow alighting this 590 foot long meadows which was one of our research meadows. I’ve was on top of a big rock watching the sun go down. Smoking the last of my cigarettes for three months. I was a bit stoned too. But I could feel it. All of the plants were shooting down. The meadows was saying goodbye to the sun. It was June 20th. Close to if not the longest day of the year. And you could fuel Sl off nature singing a lullaby. Good night. Every blade. Every alpine plant was leaning in to that sunset. I felt blessed and connected. Resonance?

What a beautiful video! For me, the missing piece is God. He is both the source of beauty and meaning. He created all that is good, and He is the reason that there is "resonance" in the sense you speak of it.

God It’s God

Hey Ian, this is an incredible video could you please post part 4? Subscribed and waiting! Adieu!

To see beyond the seeing, thank you. And bless you for being you.

Hey Ian, does God love me if I'm gay?

Looks like you stopped posting from this channel, but I would love to hear you talk about the Sublime :) Maybe one day

Really nice!! Looks like fun 😊

This was a beautiful description of the inner world of the painter 🙏💜💛

I love these videos, thank you

Brilliant. Absolutely BRILLIANT.

Thank you Ian !

Sends me back to the comment I've just posted about planning and spontaneity... Thanks a lot indeed.

Thank you for your rational explanations. Everyone should hear this. The idea of rationality and irrationality as different parts of a whole is quite interesting.

You lost me at "Right & Left Brain". It's proven to be nothing more than pop-psych pseudo-science and you do a disservice to suggest otherwise.

You may enjoy Dr. Iain McGilchrist's book ' The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World'. He speaks of how the left hemisphere 'analytical focused' thinking has taken over and prevents us from using our right hemisphere 'perceptual intuitive' thinking which we use to appreciate beauty. Much more to it than this but absolutely fascinating and right in line with your thinking.

That happened to me when as a child I wanted to hunt an owl that I always saw very beautiful posing in the field but at the moment of hunting it that beauty died and with the tears of my desire I learned a life lesson. 🤧😅😢😔🙇😇

I love this subject - in the search for beauty - its very much a search about life and the mystery of experience. To my mind every moment is a creative process - you chouuse your focus - what attracts you - and how you give attention - we have a very interesting phenomenological Danish philosopher - Professor Ple Fogh Kirkeby. He has written a wonderfull book with the title “ beauty happens”

Love your subject matter.

Yes truly inspiring and no doubt that these are important dimensions of every process of experience and expression - and its also a Scientific discussion about what is Consciousness and human experience and the intertwining of body-heart-mind-World - very well expressed e.g. by the French philosophers Maice Merleau Ponty and Gaston Bachelard who was very aware of the felt sense of language and of images and metaphors - and it is a very important subject in contemporary dance and somaesthetic understanding of the role of the Living body in the ways we are present in the experience of the now

Thank you

Catching up ❤👍

The "shift to self" culminates in the "Me Generation" where values are entirely subjective; now to the point of gender identity and the very existence of babies by choice. A generation that sung, "Everything is beautiful in it's own way." now act as gods determining good and bad however they please. It seems the concept of Beauty as a constant of creation would be a refreshing standard to return to. Aligning thought with your discussion on resonance, we are constantly reminded of natural vibrations that sustain life of all kinds. Ultimately, beauty is proportion within all disciplines . . . biology, math, art, music, etc. Match the color spectrum with the octave scale. Match "golden section" proportions with genetics. It's all intertwined. WE are all intertwined with beauty . . . whether we accept it or not. Thank you for this discussion, Ian!

I love the idea that Walter de Maria “draws” with lightning, so that lightning becomes art [only?] in his field, just as wind becomes music [only?] when it trickles through a chime...

Thank you. Very interesting.

Very interesting. Thank you for this educational commentary.

Thank you for clearly taking me through this difference.. makes it easier to break it down in my mind .

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Beautiful!! I so agree about the sacredness of beauty and nature ...

Oh loved this!!, thank you! Ian is my guru for amazing teaching of composition. This video just restates how wonderful he is. I love having this feeling with the world. We need it so much right now.

Thank you so much for sharing!!!!! Wonderful way to understand the relevance of Left-Right brain. I am myself a computer scientist that works on pyrography, prose, and most recently has started to venture into painting... Wonder how do you see this topic reflected in artists/paintings from other cultures (e.g. Africa, India...). Do you see the same extremes or, a different progression across the spectrum?

Thank you!!!!

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for.

I have never heard this topic spoken of in such an articulate manner. Many are called, few are chosen. I am grateful for your posts.

No one cares

They were beautiful shoes - loved my husband! LOL

Wow. No wonder I have devoured, dog eared and red-read your book, Creative Authenticity. You speak my language.

If someone is found attractive by majority of people then they’re attractive. Everyone has a type but they can still tell if someone is attractive or not. Some people may find Dolan twins ugly because they don’t like their bicycle seat shaped jaws but can still tell they attract a lot of girls and some may find Kpop boys ugly because they like more masculine men but at the same time can tell they’ve got really pretty faces. So beauty has many forms but not everyone is beautiful

A video on Connection as an artist...Sweet. Try republishing it!

Very insightful..your videos gives encouragement and inspiration thank you so much for sharing. It means so much for a beginner like me.

I really enjoyed the video. Thought provoking. I often try to analyse "my style" but now I'm just gonna do what I feel and see what comes out on the paper. Liberating or what. Thanks.