APPROACHES - In The Words Of . . . .
From: Ferrier, Jean-Louis, Director and Yann le Pichon, Walter D. Glanze [English Translation]. Art of Our Century, The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present. New York: Prentice-Hall Editions. 1988.
The error begins the minute you take it into your head to buy a painting and a frame.
In every human there exists a potential creative faculty. This does not mean that each person is a painter or a sculptor, but that there is latent creativity in every domain of human effort.
I keep coming back to this expression: In the beginning was the Word. The Word is a form. It is, quite simply, the principle of evolution. This principle of evolution can now come forth, emerge from humankind; the old evolution is over. That is the reason for the crisis. Anything new that happens on this planet must be brought about by humans. But it cannot come about if the source has dried up, that is to say, if the beginning has no form. So I am calling for a better form of thought, of feeling, of willpower. Those are true esthetic criteria. But they should not be judged solely on the basis of their exterior forms. They lend themselves to judgment while they are still within the individual where they can be observed. That is when we suddenly become aware that we are spiritual beings.
My sole aim is to show, in a constructive manner, the monstrously undeveloped possibilities that are within us, possibilities that we unfortunately use so rarely, and which we ought to use.
For me, the necessary condition in the evolution of a sculpture is that an inner form first appear to the mind and to the skilled eye, and then that it be expressed in the modeling of material.
We need the soil of this earth, on which every person feels himself, and knows himself, to be a creative being, acting upon the world. The slogan "Everybody is an artist," which has aroused such anger, and which people continue to misunderstand, refers to the transformation of the social body. Each of us can, even must, take part in this transformation so that we can bring it about as quickly as possible. That is why I create expressions that, though they may have other meanings when translated, have the same basic principles.
Creativity is solely that which can be defined and justified as the science of freedom.
[An Exerpt From: Ferrier, Jean-Louis, Director and Yann le Pichon, Walter D. Glanze [English Translation]. Art of Our Century, The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present. New York: Prentice-Hall Editions. 1988. p. 813]
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