Comments on: To Create Is To Destroy

By: Russel Trojan

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:11:06 +0000

Alyson, I understand. Your questions initiate conversations, you have a goal in mind, a “mission” to accomplish. I am somewhat troubled by those who are provocative for the sake of provocation.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:26:52 +0000

In reply to Russel Trojan.

Russel: I hope you’ll understand that “provocative” is the whole point of Deep Thought Thursday, which you see here 1x a week. Gets us thinking.

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By: filio

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:01:06 +0000

I prefer to think of it as
… to create is to transform.
The reason I think this way is because I cannot separate my creations or expressions from the things and events that inspire me and have come before me. Art, in whatever form is an expression of life.
Objects can be destroyed, but experiences can not.

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By: Phil Kendall

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:01:13 +0000

In reply to Russel Trojan.

I merely ask the question…looking for answers…I don’t have it yet.

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By: Ros Dyson

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:22:27 +0000

In reply to Lucy Chen.

I do so agree with this post.

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By: Russel Trojan

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:20:32 +0000

I read this phrase in the same way I read statements like “In order to live you have to die”, or “To make an omlet you have to break some eggs”. Personally, I’m not sure creation is the result of destruction, but rather a process of transformation.
However, at first glance, I see statements of this sort as more provocative than meaningful. And, from that, I have to ask, “Is provocative productive?”

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By: Phil Kendall

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:09:45 +0000

My art is about those out of the way private places. So by sharing them on my website a little of their privacy is lost?
So creating that art is also destroying something personal perhaps?

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By: NATE METZ

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:46:25 +0000

I actually just received the journal as a birthday gift last month and have been working through destroying it. I see the quote quite literally: when you create you are destroying the ingredients, materials, components from their current state to a new state. For example, coloring with pencils creates artwork but destroys the pencil. And, to be more abstract, it is possible to create destruction. Making art about the cycle of creation/destruction – rebirth – constant change is very inspiring to me because it can be explored from many different stages and from different points of view. A theme so dynamic is sure to produce good art !

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By: Lucy Chen

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:56:30 +0000

In reply to Janice Tanton.

Oh Janice, I never thought of it this way.
I had only thought about art, and I was sure that we created more than destroyed in the progress. But, when it comes to the growth of our population, of our living habitat, we create infrastructure, we create cities etc… and we destroy so so much in the progress.

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By: Patrick Gracewood

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:14:00 +0000

I take to “create is to destroy” as a willingness to allow the art making process to be ugly, messy to get to a better solution. Unless you take risks, and be willing to loose both the materials and time invested, you’re always playing it safe. Safe soon becomes boring and a cliche’.

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