“Religion has its language, politics has its language, the only language which is universal is the language of art.” -Khalili
mandythompson.com
Mandy writes music. Mandy leads worship. Mandy loves Drew.
“Religion has its language, politics has its language, the only language which is universal is the language of art.” -Khalili
i don’t know. despite culture and background, people also understand a smile. or a laugh.
This is a happy thought for a Friday!
And maths.
Yes. All three of ‘em.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOOOOO!!!!
haha. Just kidding.
I will agree with Josh about humor. Watching one clown hit another with a pie in the face will make people everywhere laugh, even the Martians.
Written language is just pictures, like the first cave paintings of early man. Those caves paintings were the first attempts to record history. They were the first books. Our ability to understand art gives us the ability to communicate with people we will never meet in person.
My first experience with a great artist was my first trip to New York to visit the Museum of Modern Art. I got off the elevator in the 2nd floor and the first thing I saw was Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica”, the Spanish city that was the first in Europe to be bombed by the Germans, in 1937.
I had never heard of Picasso or Guernica, Spain, but I could just feel the torment of war expressed in the painting. I did not need to read it’s story, I could feel it. That is how art communicates.
or love. but art, too.
Hey Mandy,
So…check out this creativity quote. It’s one of my all-time faves:
What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you’ve experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can’t have it both ways: You can’t be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.
- Arno Penzias, 1978 Nobel Prize winner for physics
(words to live by…for me, anyway)
OH wow. I can’t tell you how much I understand what he’s talking about! Thank you for leaving that, Kat.
i believe the only fully universal language out there is the message of Christ. You can bring a poem, a song or a van gogh to a tribe in the amazon forest and although it might communicate, they will not relate to it as meaningfully as they would with Jesus, because He is the only language that transcends culture. Now the best part:I think Jesus was quite an artist, and every of his works a masterpiece. Love how I contradict myself?!
And making out. Seriously. People understand a great big kiss on the mouth. Just sayin.