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UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation
#14574930 - 06/07/11 03:02 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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*Being a film maker, let me begin with that word 'creativity'. Much has been said on this subject. What do you have to say about it?
There is no such thing as creativity at all. All that people do is imitate something or the other that already exists. Only when you do not use anything as a model, what emerges can be called creativity and that cannot be used again as a model for future acts of yours. And there it ends. If you look at human faces or even those leaves--no two faces are the same, no two leaves are the same.
*Behind the changes in nature there seems to be some kind of plan or purpose, don't you think?
I don't see any plan or scheme there at all! There is a process--I wouldn't necessarily call it evolution--but when it slows down then a revolution takes place. Nature tries to put something together and start all over again, just for the sake of creating. This is the only true creativity. Nature uses no models or precedents and so has nothing to do with artper se.
*Do you mean to say there is nothing to the creativity of artists, poets, musicians and sculptors?
Why do you want to place art on a higher level than craft? If there is no market for an artist's creation, he will be out of business. It is the market that is responsible for all these so-called artistic beliefs. An artist is a craftsman like any other craftsman. He uses that tool to express himself. All human creation is born out of sensuality. I have nothing against sensuality. All art is a pleasure movement. Even that (the pleasure) has to be cultivated by you. Otherwise you have no way of appreciating the beauty and art that artists are talking about. If you question their creation, they feel superior, thinking that you don't have taste. Then they want you to go to a school to learn how to appreciate their art. If you don't enjoy a poem written by a so-called great poet, they forcibly educate you to appreciated poetry. That is all that they are doing in the educational institutions. They teach us how to appreciate beauty, how to appreciate music, how to appreciate painting and so on. Meanwhile they make a living off you. Artists find it comforting to think that they are creative: 'creative art', 'creative ideas', 'creative politics'. It's nonsense. There is nothing really creative in them in the sense of their doing anything original, new or free. Artists pick something here and something there, put it together and think they have created something marvelous. They are all imitating something that is already there. Imitation and style are the only 'creativity' we have. Each of us has our own style according to the school we attended, the language we were taught, the books we have read, the examinations we have taken. And within that framework again we have our own style. Perfecting style and technique is all that operates there. You will be surprised that one of these days computers will paint and create music much better than all the painters and musicians that the world has produced so far. It may not happen in our lifetime but it will happen. You are no different from a computer. We are not ready to accept that because we are made to believe that we are not just machines--that there is something more to us. You have to come to terms with this and accept that weare machines. The human intellect that we have developed through education, through all kinds of techniques is no match for nature. They (creative activities) assume importance because they have been recognized as expressions of spiritual, artistic and intellectual values. The drive for self-expression is born out of neurosis. This applies to the spiritual teachers of mankind too. There is no such thing as a direct sense-experience. All forms of art are nothing but an expression of sensuality.
* Is there something more to self-expression U.G.? Having had a tremendous experience of some kind you want to relate it to somebody or maybe just replay it to yourself? Is there anything to this over-riding need to express oneself?
There is no such thing as my experience and your experience. When you experience something you think it is something extraordinary and naturally the need arises to share that experience with somebody else. When you and I go out for a walk you naturally look at something that you have not looked at before and it is something extraordinary for you. And when you say to yourself this is something extraordinary that you have not seen before there is a need for you--which is a part of your self fulfillment--to share that pleasure with somebody else. Whatever you experience has already been experienced by someone else. Your telling yourself, 'Ah! I am in a blissful state,' means that someone else before you has experienced that and has passed it on to you. Whatever may be the nature of the medium through which you experience, it is a second-hand, third-hand, and last-hand experience. It is not yours. There is no such thing as your own experience. Such experiences, however extraordinary, aren't worth anything.
* We want to know what truth is. We want to know what enlightenment is. You already know it. Don't tell me that you don't. There is no such thing as truth at all.
How much of human expression, if any comes from an original and perhaps truthful place? Is art simply the imitation of culture and the psyche or it can it be born from what you might describe as real and natural in any way?
I know RGV takes an interest in this topic and if he's about I like to hear his piece.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: Grapefruit]
#14574998 - 06/07/11 03:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I tend to agree. Course I'm just a craftsman and not much of that.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: Icelander]
#14575062 - 06/07/11 03:32 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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One of the places where he almost seems to contradict himself is where he says nature is true creativity because it is without a model. It strikes me that if that's the case then any person and anything they create is also a part of this true creativity. There has been this idea of "true will" in certain philosophical schools of thought, where the human aligns with natures well I guess this also could sounds wishy washy but UG presents a similar idea in his description of "the natural state", his description of it doesn't coincide with others and he claims the desire of expression is simply born from neurosis and somehow in conflict with art. Expression is not neccessarily born from a need but it could be argued that it too is a natural tendency. Why not? This expression could be ingrained into us, not in conflict with natural tendencies. At the end of the day; if we're going to discuss any tendency at all, each of us can only do our best to describe how we are functioning. You can't neccessarily apply this to others, it may just be projection on UGs part.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: Grapefruit]
#14575101 - 06/07/11 03:39 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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In the beginning there was something "new" created by the first man but based squarely on the model that nature provides. Everything we can do comes from our interaction with our natural environment. My guess
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: Icelander]
#14575316 - 06/07/11 04:20 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Here I am riding on my original invention.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#14575507 - 06/07/11 05:06 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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You're looking good these days.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#14575526 - 06/07/11 05:12 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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OrgoneConclusion said: Here I am riding on my original invention.

Your invention is bad and you should feel bad.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: NetDiver]
#14575557 - 06/07/11 05:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Reading some of aphex twins interviews he claims he creates music purely out of boredom, prefers to listen to his own music and doesn't release his best tracks in case anyone else imitates them.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: Grapefruit]
#14575756 - 06/07/11 05:57 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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That is why I never released this snippet.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#14575787 - 06/07/11 06:03 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Oh, I forgot, you are a raver. This is the closest I have to trance. Obviously it is unfinished - just a scratch pad.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#14576048 - 06/07/11 07:02 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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u.g often condradicted himself doesnt mean he wasn't on to something though. our world is full of falsely claimed truths which causes many problems psychologically and sociologicaly. drop the idea of truth and adopt a maleable working theory. maleable enough that it wont cause you any resistence or suffering if it has to change. the ideas of pride and greed are long since useful in society so why havent we overcome them? we can evolve through knowledge and intelligence its just the belief that these things are useful and justified which keep them in use. the same thing goes for millions of other ideas which are no longer useful and are now a burden on society. im going to start a thread soon to make a list (virus database)
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: zoomfan]
#14576085 - 06/07/11 07:08 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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u.g often condradicted himself doesnt mean he wasn't on to something though.
So inconsistency is a sign of flexibility? Not buying it.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#14576100 - 06/07/11 07:12 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Everyone is inconsistent from what I've seen. He's got some good ideas (to me) and that's all he's worth. No one to follow or venerate but from what he says he's not after that.
My question would be, why if someone doesn't want to be followed don't they mind their own business and keep to themselves? It's not like he supposedly believes anyone needs what he says. Something a little fishy about that.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#14576111 - 06/07/11 07:13 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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It is and it isn't.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
#14576118 - 06/07/11 07:14 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Primarily I think he just wanted to get people to think for themselves and show how flimsy peoples thought and belief structures were. He once stated he was on a mission to refute every statement he ever made. I read a report of a film maker who stayed with him for a month, everyone who knew him agreed that he never seemed to make much sense and was unbearable for more than short periods of time but that you did feel somehow lighter after meeting him.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: Grapefruit]
#14576133 - 06/07/11 07:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sounds like a lot of bs to me. Why did he want to show anyone anything or get people to think for themselves. Why should he care?
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: Icelander]
#14576141 - 06/07/11 07:17 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Icelander said: My question would be, why if someone doesn't want to be followed don't they mind their own business and keep to themselves? It's not like he supposedly believes anyone needs what he says. Something a little fishy about that.
Supposedly he was actually a very caring guy on a personal level despite claiming not to be.
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: Grapefruit]
#14576147 - 06/07/11 07:18 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Caring about what? Did he think he had the truth and could save people?
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: Icelander]
#14576160 - 06/07/11 07:21 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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If you want to question anything, question his words. His motivations are irrelevant to whatever value his work has, if it has any. Hitler's motivations didn't make the gas chambers burn any colder. Why be suspicious of him anyway?
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Re: UG Krishnamurti on art, creativity and imitation [Re: Icelander]
#14576171 - 06/07/11 07:23 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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If I understand him correctly, he was one of those people shouting that no one does.
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