Give This To A Sleeping Artist: Grace To Embrace Your Old Friend Art

Art is not about perfection, education, rules, heuristics, politics, money, fame, or glory—unless the dead create for the dead. Art is about God. By creating art, you capture God. Letting the receiver meet God through the Art, through You. You are the introduction. You are the friend that opens the door.
Be a good friend.

Table Of Contents:

Intro.

Grace.

Journey.

Experience.


Excerpt:

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When was the last time you made art you were proud of? When was the last time you created art for the joy of it, for its own sake? When time sweetly slipped away, like all your troubles. That time, you made something worthwhile but don’t know how. And then you cheekily felt like a great artist, a genius, a messiah. And for that moment of creation, you were. But were you?

That sweet memory, when grace carried your hand, and all was flowing without force. How you really had nothing to do, the art was conducting your every move. The song wrote itself; the words used you to come to life; for a moment, you were a salve to the divine, but you didn’t mind that at all, did you? You were glad she played you a fool. You are delighted to be hers and create for her alone.

That is grace, and you know it by experience. It is all too familiar yet so out of reach. It is a meditation of sorts. Action turns into non-action, where the subject and the object merge. And artists have plenty of it. Not that they could own it (they sure try), but get lost in, bathe in, and create from it. And perhaps that is the secret.

Of it we shall not speak; it is to be left unsaid; all words cannot hold it or claim it, explain it or relay it. But for the purpose of this book, we shall call it grace. And grace comes from God, like an emanation.

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Art comes in many forms. But art always holds the state of its maker. The maker can make art by force—great force, infused with lower intentions or intentions of higher order that require less force.

The greatest works of art are not made. They do not require a maker. They come from grace. They are brought to life by the artist—from maker to vessel.


Praise For The 'God And Art' Series:

'Next to Steven Pressfield's 'War Of Art,' this book deeply changed my view on making art. An Artist's must-read'. - Angela's Review On Goodreads

'Masterpiece'.
- Penelope Pereira's Review On Goodreads


Meet God Through Art & Make Art In Meditation
This Is Book 2 Of The God And Art Series By Lila Tace