Hearing and Understanding -431

[@janetfountain-qb5wq]

When the discussion turned to choosing mood words, and other poetic descriptive devices, it was perfect advice to consider in my next development as an artist. Thank you.

[@andytschoepe1510]

In the Marx Bros film, "Duck Soup," when Margaret Dumont's character witnesses Harpo and Chico leaving and returning to her room in rapid succession (while both are disguised as Groucho's character), she confusedly states that she just saw Groucho leave and can't believe he showed up so suddenly. Margaret says, "I saw you leave with my own eyes." Chico (dressed as Groucho) replies, "Who are you a-gonna' believe? Me, or your own eyes?" :-)

[@paulingbretson4394]

MY wife, who introduced me to the Marx brothers, loves this reminder...lol!

[@jazw4649]

"Poetry and music expresses it without saying it. Sometimes things need to stay in the realm of the implicit (left brain says: if you can't make it explicit, it's not real). There are many things that can't be made explicit without a great loss, like the experience of being in love. You can't convey what it's like or what it means. The only way to explain it is through music and poetry or a painting. Poetry is using language to subvert language, one's using language against itself, sounds a paradox, but what it's doing is shaking your belief that you understand this sentence in a linear fashion and allowing the shaking to awaken things in you that are between the word, between the lines. It's all that stuff that's spoken but not spoken that is powerful. And of course music is only relations, it cannot be stated in words." ~Dr. Iian McGilchrist~ Hi Paul, I draw a lot of parallels in your talk today " I meant exactly what I said" to Dr Iian McGilchrist idea that sometimes you need poetry to say exactly what you mean. I think you would really like his work! The book Master and his Emissary is fantastic. Also along the lines of the idea of learned religion as a kid then "checking it out with your own eyes" is in tune to the Jungian idea of "Individuation" where you grow up in an environment surrounded by others ideas thouggts and fears and essentially eventually you come to the realization that you need to either keep or toss what you have learned so far to become whole. I love your quote "you need all the legs of the table" Great talk! Thank you Paul and Mr Producer!

[@paulingbretson4394]

Your comments and quotes today are so apt, jaz, could be a free standing video, Thank you

[@mcrumph]

I understand what you are saying about critics; however, I would like to nominate a counterpoint: John Ruskin. Thoughts?

[@paulingbretson4394]

Worked in our field and thus has creds. Can't say which at the moment but there are things he seems to get just a little wrong. If memory serves he speaks wisely about the naive or innocent, eye.