[MD] Art as Experience

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
Excellent! High quality both in content and expression, an artful 
essay that demonstrates its subject. A keeper. Thanks.

[Arlo]
Thanks, Platt. I think this quote from ZMM is along the lines of what 
Steve was saying.

"It's the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and 
see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect 
painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint 
naturally. That's the way all the experts do it. The making of a 
painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn't separate from the rest 
of your existence. If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the 
week you aren't working on your machine, what trap avoidances, what 
gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all 
goes together.

But if you're a sloppy thinker six days a week and you really try to 
be sharp on the seventh, then maybe the next six days aren't going to 
be quite as sloppy as the preceding six. What I'm trying to come up 
with on these gumption traps I guess, is shortcuts to living right.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. The 
machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to 
be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or 
fall away from Quality together." (ZMM}

It's the way that you live that predisposes you to experience "art".

It is the last sentence in this quote, I feel, that succinctly points 
to art as experience.