{"id":2799,"date":"2017-03-25T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2017\/03\/stop-thinking\/"},"modified":"2017-03-25T09:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T13:16:50","slug":"stop-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2017\/03\/stop-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ongoing theme in this collection of musings is the proper role of the intellect, if there is one, in the creation of art. &#0160;As a photographer who has relied more on instinct than intellect in choosing how and what to capture, I am&#0160;typically unmoved by&#0160;conceptual art that requires the viewer to engage intellectually with a piece.<\/p>\n<p>Painter Agnes Martin shares this sentiment:<\/p>\n<p><em>The great and fatal pitfall in the art field and in life is dependence on the intellect rather than inspiration.&#0160;<\/em><em>Dependence on intellect means a consideration of observed facts and deductions from observation as a guide in life.&#0160;<\/em><em>Dependence on inspiration means dependence on consciousness, a growing consciousness that develops from awareness of beauty and happiness.&#0160;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To live and work by inspiration you have to stop thinking.&#0160;<\/em><em>You have to hold your mind still in order to hear inspiration clearly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2017\/03\/22\/agnes-martin-happiness-river-of-live\/\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d26e7f40970c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"381\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d26e7f40970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01b8d26e7f40970c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ongoing theme in this collection of musings is the proper role of the intellect, if there is one, in the creation of art. &#0160;As a photographer who has relied more on instinct than intellect in choosing how and what to capture, I am&#0160;typically unmoved by&#0160;conceptual art that requires the viewer to engage intellectually with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}