Quotation of the Week 6

Redon, Pegasus (1900) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

 

Plotinus' advice on how to see God is equally, or you might think even more, true about art:

‘For one must come to the sight with a seeing power made akin and like to what is seen. No eye ever saw the sun without becoming sun-like, nor can a soul see beauty without becoming beautiful. You must become first all godlike and all beautiful if you intend to see God and beauty.’1
 

Plotinus (AD. 205-70)

1. Stephen Bann, The True Vine: On Visual Representation and Western Tradition (Cambridge University Press) 1989, p.119
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Posted 06 Mar 2012: Redon, OdilonInner TraditionReligionTheoryVisual Perception

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