Ryan and I continue our conversation about the elements and principles of art, the creative trinity as set forth by Sayers, and the questions that arise concerning faith, science, principles versus rules and what is meant, creatively speaking, by right and wrong. This episode is also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wHoK6boKLkE

Quote from the Mind of the Maker:

"That being so, how can we know that the Idea itself has any real existence apart from the Energy? Very strangely, by the fact that the Energy itself is conscious of referring all its acts to an existing and complete whole. In theological terms, the Son does the will of the Father... Quite simply, every choice of an episode, or a word [every stroke of a painting, every choice of a color or a texture] is made to conform to a pattern of the entire work which is revealed by that choice as already existing.

This truth, which is difficult to convey in explanation, is quite clear and obvious in experience. It manifests itself plainly enough when the writer [artist] says or thinks: 'That is, or is not, the right phrase' - meaning, that it is a phrase which does or does not correspond to the reality of the Idea."

Video mentioned: The Porous Self v. The Buffered Self

https://youtu.be/n9AB14m7W_0

What to Expect in a Symphony: Fourth Movements