c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…circle the yang yin, like this see. So yin means then the order of flow, the wonderful dancing pattern of liquid, because Laozi Picasso likens Dao Dowel to water. Water, the great dowel, he says flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, like water…
…left and to the right, like water I've been calculating that it loves and nourishes all things but does not lord it open. Picasso says elsewhere, water always seeks the lowest level. Which men are poor? Because we are always trying to play games of one…
…Flemish Painters like Van Eyck, who begin a photographic realism, on to the similar painters of the 19th century, and then through Picasso and so on, to splashers like Jackson Pollock, who are all enabling us to see the world in different ways by their…
…distance, smaller? They're all the same size. When an American G I in Paris, during the war or just after the war, met Picasso, they got into a discussion about modern painting, Picasso's painting, and the g I said he simply couldn't make head or tail…
…g I said he simply couldn't make head or tail of it. He said the world doesn't look like that, women don't look like that. Picasso said: do you have a girlfriend? And he said yes. Well he said let me see her picture. And he pulled out his wallet and…
…let me see her picture. And he pulled out his wallet and he had a little photograph in the things and showed the picture. Picasso stared at it and said: is she so small as that? So you see it's a very instructive exercise to look really carefully at…
…is not that small in relation to something in the foreground. They just don't see it. And once when a gi was visiting Picasso during the liberation of France, he said he could not understand his paintings. Why does you paint a person looking from the…
…could not understand his paintings. Why does you paint a person looking from the side and from the front at the same time? And Picasso said: do you have a girlfriend? He said yes have you got a picture with you? He said yes he pulled out his wallet…
…yes have you got a picture with you? He said yes he pulled out his wallet and showed a photograph of his girlfriend and Picasso looked at it in astonishment and said: is she so small? So you realize, therefore that what we think is art depends to an…
…intended but that's a method of giving people a shock, of seeing things in a new way. You know a g I visited Picasso in Paris during the war and said: I can't understand your paintings. They're absurd life doesn't look like that. Picasso said: do you…
…a g I visited Picasso in Paris during the war and said: I can't understand your paintings. They're absurd life doesn't look like that. Picasso said: do you have a girlfriend? He said yes have you a picture? He said yes, show it to me. So he drew out…
…picture? He said yes, show it to me. So he drew out his billfold and there was a little colored photograph of his girlfriend and Picasso looked at it and said: is she so small as that? Now then, the idea of lee, the idea of natural order, is like…
…obvious difference like the difference of artistic styles. No one, for example would confuse a painting by Leonardo with a painting by Picasso, or music by bach with music by Shostakovich. And in the same way there seems to be a complete difference of…
…artist intended, but that's a method of giving people a shock, of seeing things in a new way. You know, a gi visited Picasso in Paris during the war and said: I can't understand your paintings. They're absurd life doesn't look like that. Picasso said: do…
…know, a gi visited Picasso in Paris during the war and said: I can't understand your paintings. They're absurd life doesn't look like that. Picasso said: do you have a girlfriend? He said yes have you a picture? He said yes, show it to me. He took out…
…a picture? He said yes, show it to me. He took out his billfold and there was a little colored photograph of his girlfriend, and Picasso looked at it and said: is she so small as that? Now then, the idea of lee, the idea of natural order, is like…