From an article in the NY TIMES about composer John Luther Adams, another example of an artist's experience that has relevance to all creative endeavors, especially photography:
“I’m highly suspicious of political art,” he said. “I’m not a propagandist. I’m not trying in my music to teach a lesson or tell a story. I’m trying to discover a place and invite you into that landscape to find your own way and — if I’m lucky — get hopelessly lost in it.”
“Music is not what I do; it’s how I understand the world.” “We don’t really create anything except answers to creation. Everything that we do, everything that we think, and everything that we think we create ultimately derives from this incredibly rich and complex and diverse world that we live in. It’s impossible for us to separate who we are from where we are.”
