Movement of the hands of Composer Pierre Boulez while conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. 

Its 10am and I am drinking gin.....

ART.

Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to 

learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and unrepeatable 

experience have to give us; to learn to break down the barriers which surround us 

…and to free ourselves from the breaks which hold us back, from the lies about 

ourselves which we manufacture daily for ourselves and for others; to destroy the 

limitations caused by our ignorance and lack of courage; in short, to fill the 

emptiness in us: to fulfil ourselves. Art is neither a state of the soul (in the sense 

of some extraordinary, unpredictable moment of inspiration) nor a state of man 

(in the sense of a profession or social function). Art is a ripening, an evolution, an 

uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light. 

- Grotowski