2. “…beauty is often where you don’t expect to
find it; that it is something we may discover
and also invent, then reinvent, for ourselves;
that the most important things in the world are
never as simple as they seem but that the
world is also richer when it declines to abide
by comforting formulas. And that it is always
good to keep your eyes wide open, because
you never know what you will discover. The
drive to live life more alertly being an
instinctive need, whether you are an artist by
trade or by desire, the art of seeing well is a
necessary skill, which fortunately can be
learned.”
18. “We are all vaguely tormented with a
desire to know a world which appears
to us a dungeon…I should feel as if I
could not depart in peace out of this
narrow sphere unless I endeavored to
explore my prison. The more I examine it,
the more beautiful and extensive it
becomes in my eyes.”
Astolphe de Custine
27. “No work of art is more important than the
Christian’s own life, and every Christian is
called upon to be an artist in this sense. He
may have no gift of writing, no gift of
composing or singing, but each man has the
gift of creativity in terms of the way he lives his
life. In this sense, the Christian’s life is to be an
artwork. The Christian’s life is to be a thing of
beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing
world.”
Theologian Francis A. Schaeffer
28. Read:
• Chapter 1, “The Art of Making a World”
Respond on Verso:
• Reflect on the reading.
• Reflect on how you can (or already are)
creating a world for yourself. Do you see
“art” in this? How can you make this
more “artful”?
• React to at least one of your peer’s
responses: ask follow-up questions; add to
the comments; challenge a viewpoint; etc.