| ‘ I have walked through
this landscape. I know it so well, I have it in my bones.
There nothing intervenes with what the eye perceives.
The hand moves in perfect freedom and innocence. The
landscape draws itself. ‘
Frederick Franck ( 1973 ) The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing
as Meditation. Vintage Books.
‘ Art is similar to yoga
because both share the same goals: namely, to become
more and more conscious...... the end of art is the
realization of the spirit. Self-transcendency and nonattachment
are aspects of typical yogic and aesthetic experiences.
Aesthetic and yogic disciplines eventually achieve some
degree of self-transcendency, nonattachment, transformation,
and integration. In the process an aesthetic act becomes
a religious or sacred act.’
James Duerlinger ( 1984 ) Ultimate Reality and Spiritual
Discipline. Paragon House Publishers.
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