ART

 Continuing on the summarizing through excerpts from “Talks and Dialogues” JD Krishnamurti.

What place has art for such a mind? Why do we depend so much on music, poetry, etc? Is it a form of escape, a stimulation? What is a painting? You paint something, some like it, some criticize it and if it becomes famous, it fetches a great price. But if you are directly in contact with the sky, the trees, the mountains and the birds, then you don’t need art. If you watch and are with the movement of a bird on the wing, the beauty of every movement of the sky, in the hills, in the shadows or the beauty in the face of another, would you go to a museum to look at art? Maybe you do not know how to look at all the things about you. That is why you go to the museum to look! But if we knew how to look at the face of a passer – by, at a flower by the roadside, a cloud of an evening, to look with complete attention and therefore with complete joy and love, then all these other things would have very little meaning.