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YOU DON’T NEED PERMISSION TO MAKE ART! Dear Ones — I wanted to share this arti…

Aug 2, 2014

YOU DON'T NEED PERMISSION TO MAKE ART!

Dear Ones —

I wanted to share this article about my dear friend John Morse — an artist who is one of the most creative souls I have ever met. He decided recently that he wanted to have a piece of his artwork at the Guggenheim Museum…so he just installed some art himself, without asking permission…and all in the most charming and delightful way: By dressing up his friends in the color spectrum of the rainbow, and just having them walk around the museum, making people happy.

I love this man's spirit!

Go make art in the world, people!

https://on.wsj.com/1rYXOJ2


Artist John Morse on his Guerrilla Show at the Guggenheim – Speakeasy – WSJ
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Earlier this month, six people wearing brightly colored, oversize t-shirts wound their way to the top floor of the Guggenheim museum and formed artist John Morse’s pop-up installation, “The Color Spectrum at the Guggenheim,”

via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Wall

My lowest self says: “That person is acting like a total jerk!” My slightly hig…

Aug 2, 2014

My lowest self says: "That person is acting like a total jerk!"

My slightly higher self says: "That person is acting like a total jerk right now only because he's going through a really hard time in life, and his parents never taught him how to behave better, and he might have some sort of mild mental illness, and also he has a drinking problem…so I should try to be more compassionate and generous toward sad, tragic, miserable people like that."

My even higher self says: "We are all just flawed and frightened human beings in an uncertain world, struggling to survive."

Then finally my VERY highest self says: "Lord, please help me stop acting like a total jerk."

…and that's when it finally stops being about the other person at all.

Have a beautiful Saturday, friends!

Aim high,
LG

via Elizabeth Gilbert’s Facebook Wall