I just didn't want to get all wound up in any systems at all.” Which is what my psychiatrist, whether he knew it or not, was trying, quite effectively, to do to my painting. At worst, they all try to destroy one another. And the religious attitude I guess is that the other two are only useful as long as they promote the good life. Or, art is the study and praise of man and man's ideals, so therefore a religious experience just becomes a brutalized aesthetic response and psychiatry is just another tool for the artist to observe man and render his portraits more accurately. You know: religion and art are both forms of madness and madness is the realm of psychiatry. At best, each is trying to encompass the other two and define them as sub-groups. They're all in rather uneasy truce with one another in what's actually a mortal battle. As soon as you get a problem in any one of them, the solution it gives is always to go deeper into the same system. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it.
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