Tag:  Art

• I wonder what people generally mean by meditation. June 19, 2011

  Question: In order to discover lasting values, is meditation necessary, and, if so, what is the correct method of meditation? Krishnamurti: I wonder what people generally mean by meditation. As ...

• The true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life is that expression, whether it be a picture, music, or his behaviour; October 17, 2011

  Question: The artist is sometimes mentioned as one who has this understanding of which you speak, at least while working creatively. But if someone disturbs or crosses him, he may react violently, ...

• Creativeness is something infinitely greater than the mere capacity to express; August 24, 2013

  Questioner: I understand you to say that creativeness is an intoxication from which it is hard to free oneself. Yet you often speak of the creative person. Who is he if he is not the artist, the po...

• When do you feel that creative overpowering ecstasy? Only when all conflict has ceased, only when the self is absent, only when there is complete tranquillity. September 02, 2013

  Is conflict necessary for creative being? When do you feel that creative overpowering ecstasy? Only when all conflict has ceased, only when the self is absent, only when there is complete tranquill...

• Creative, expectant emptiness is not brought about by will or by desire; it comes into being when conflict of the self ceases. September 03, 2013

  Like us the artist has moments of stillness in which creation is experienced; then he puts it down in paint, in music, in form. His expression assumes great value for he has painted it, it is his w...

• To cultivate inward beauty, you must first be aware of the inward confusion, the inward ugliness, because beauty does not come into being by itself. July 21, 2015

  Question: What is the place of art in education? Krishnamurti: I don't quite know what you mean by art. Do you mean hanging pictures in your school room, or do you mean helping the child to draw...