Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925-1972): inside_the

inside_the_dog

Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American, 1925-1972)

May 07, 2010 23:25

"I think every work of art expresses,more or less purely, more or less subtly,
not feelings & emotions which the artist has,but feeling & emotions which the artist knows;
his insight into the nature of science,his picture of vital experience,physical & emotive & fantastic.
Such knowledge is not expressible in ordinary discourse.

The reason for this ineffability is not that the ideas to be expressed are too high, too spiritual,
or too anything else, but that the forms of feeling and the forms of discursive expression
are logically incommensurate,so that any exact concepts of feeling & emotion cannot be portrayed
into the logical form of literal language.

Verbal statement, which is our normal & most reliable means of communication,
is almost useless for conveying knowledge about the precise character of the affective life".

the family album of lucybelle crater

“Billboards in any art are the first things that one sees- the masks might be interpreted as billboards. Once you get past the billboard then you can see into the past (forest, etc.), the present, &the future. I feel that because of the “strange” that more attention is paid to the backgrounds & that has been the essence of my photography forever".