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Article: Tripping the Art Fantastic.(Arts and Living)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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It’s no joke to be an artist: you carry worlds-within-worlds on your shoulders. For the transformation of the world, from beauty to more, greater beauty. Not everyone who picks up the brush to paint, or strings words together, is a painter or poet.The artist—painter, sculptor, poet — if loyal and true to his calling, his profession, creates worlds-within-worlds, the products of his inner visions and grandest dreams made visible reality to the beholder. In them, he challenges concepts and theories about reality by provoking our thoughts and awakening our intellect, by working our reason, he questions even our thinking on life—if we use as foundation ...