Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbellwas an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human experience. His philosophy is often summarized by his phrase: "Follow your bliss."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 March 1904
CountryUnited States of America
art revelations art-is
Art is the clothing of a revelation
adventure artist reflection
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.
artist perfection faults
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
inspirational art people
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
artist world function
The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."
art shining radiance
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.
artist soul roles
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.
artist mystery speak
Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.
artist inward action
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
creativity artist way
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.
art alive culture
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.
art speech function
It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.
inspirational art writing
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted.
art commitment fate
This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art...