Quote of the Day – March 20 2012

“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
–Pablo Picasso

I have every intention tonight of returning to last night’s subject of responsibility and freedom and how they interrelate with compassion. Indeed i feel lately that most of my thoughts and meditation have been spent on those subjects. I have a bit of a side trip however. Something amazingly cool today that I wanted to share with you.

Today we went to the National Gallery in London. I went from hall to hall looking at some amazingly evocative art and was impressed as always by how you can look at some of the pictures and continually see something new whether it is something in the subject’s expression or in the colour choices or the light or the way that the various character’s interacted with each other, each picture spoke volumes.
Then I started watching the other people in the art gallery. I watched their body language and expression and how they interacted with each other. I started thinking about what their clothing styles said about them and what their lives were like. Gradually it dawned on me that what I was watching was art watching art and how much of a masterpiece each one of us are.

Next time I go to an art gallery, I would love to bring a camera, not to photograph art but to photograph the people looking at art. For what I saw there was beauty.
Blessings,
G

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Gallery Tour B by G A Rosenberg

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