"In 'On Truth and Lies', when Nietzsche writes that the fundamental human drive is to create metaphors, this means that the drive is an artistic one. This drive is so strong that people will write on walls to fulfill an inherent need to create something."
quoted from a good friend and philosopher....
This is a very important topic for myself. My life has ultimately consisted of one creative venture after another, seeking to find what I think is my art form, to do for the rest of my life and never tire of. After reading 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Nietzsche my answer was no nearer to being found but one huge idea was formed in my mind from the massive amount of inferences and inspiration that can come from this work: that all humans are here to create. Either creating more of ourselves through sex or carving our names into a wooden desk, this seems to be our purpose as a species.
Recently I was watching Style Wars, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_Wars for the first time and not the last and thought about how the artists in this film were so hungry to create that they resorted to painting and drawing and scrawling their names anywhere they could. That in a city where there is so much built up flat surfaces and other objects to create pieces of art on, how could a person not be expected to fill in these blank 'canvasses' with something they think to be beautiful and necessary? Instead of it being vandalism, I see it as a purely human non-violent endeavour. One that we should all be expected to explore in our lives, no matter what kind of artistic medium we choose.
Be it graffiti or sewing, the creative spirit within the human race seems to trump all other activity and the future of our species depends on how this creativity is explored. Will it be for the greater good? Or the destruction of the earth? Or both? Time will tell. I am going to keep on looking, experimenting, trying to find what I love most to manifest with my hands, mind, and never ending lust for what sounds, looks, and/or tastes the best to me. And then share it with all of you to see if I was right.
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