ART WAVES NOW
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
- Albert Einstein
“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.”
- Gary Paulsen
“There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.”
- Dave Barry
“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands. It had a playful side too, as it enjoyed the crowd, tossed the children about, knocked lilos over, tipped over windsurfers, occasionally gave sailors helping hands; all done with a secret little chuckle.”
- Cecelia Ahern
“I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.”
-Pablo Picasso
“I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.
- Martha Graham
"A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about."
- Arthur Miller
- Marianne Moore
“Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.”
- Hayao Miyazaki
“Strike, with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and dim, deft toucher of the organ keys; blow, bugler, blow, until thy silver notes do touch and kiss the moonlit waves, and charm the lovers wandering 'mid the vine-clad hills.”
- Robert G. Ingersol
Read more about Beautiful Waves, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including Chromatic Waves Now, A Universe of Waves Now and Amber Waves Now.
Enter your own images and ideas about Beautiful Waves in this week’s creative Photo Competition. Open for entries now until 11:59 p.m. PT on 08.03.14. If you are reading this after that date, check out the current BN Creative Competition, and enter!
PHOTO CREDITS:
- Photo: by Alfred Hermida. Long Wave - Toronto Art Installation.
- Photo: by Rafa from Brazil. “Wave of Colours.”
- Photo: by Love_Haight. “Waves at Lake Mead.”
- Photo: by Wonderlane. Wave Sculpture, Sunset, Ballard Locks, Seattle, Washington.
- Photo: by Rob Radencic. Abstract Wave.
- Photo: by Elbert Chu. “Seoul Big Wave.”
- Photo: by Hannu Salama. Abstract Wave Art.
- Photo: by Future15pic. “Bottle Wave.”
- Photo: by Kevin Dooley. “News Waves.” Time Lapse of News Banner Lights at Times Square.
- Photo: by Mark Chadwick. “Waves of Color.”
