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Buddhism teaches them things are created by the mind rather than that the mind perceives existing things.

The artist strives to achieve an inner vision. He attempts to attune his mind to the Infinite & to express the result.

The basic principle of Eastern thoughts is identity. Applied in the field of artistic acting this is a definition of the highest form of conception; the purest kind of
inspiration. The artist transmits in symbols or shapes or signs something which contains a spark of that eternal stream of life or consciousness which abides when forms decay. His aim is to try & reproduce the idea behind the object. In short, he is the agent of the universal as opposed to that of the individual soul



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Clement Greenberg on 'Lipchitz'  

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Also in Sept. '54 issue of Commentary - I liked Clement Greenberg's revue & analysis of Jacques Lipchitz's sculpture.

To quote -
Lipchitz is a very great sculptor. Still - the exhibition offers the ambience of greatness, while offering relatively few great individual works, relatively little of the greatness gets precipitated as the unity & completeness of single works. A hundred odd items spoke of an enormous capacity. And by capacity I mean much more than promise - were it only that, Lipchitz would be but one among thousands of artists who have failed to develop gifts genuinely theirs. I mean potentiality: the possession of developed gifts as manifested in actual works. Yet these gifts are so seldom realized conclusively that the disproportion