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Federico Fellini--from an interview with Jonathon
Cott:
"A creative person -- let's say
that awful word: an artist -- makes what we call magical operations. Becasue if
something lives only in his imagination, totally hidden to others, then people
won't be able to imagine it. So, with his talent, experience, artisanal sense,
materials and colors, an artist makes things visible for everybody, like the
magician in a fairy tale who makes something that wasn't there suddenly appear.
Because the artist always lives somewhere in between the unconscious and the
prevaling cultural standards, and he attempts to combine the two. Or one could
refer to the twilight zone between the sun and the moon, which is the same
borderland between what is unconscious and real. And so the artist is
particularly moved by the light that is between--between two attitudes, two sets
of behavior, two dimensions. He is moved by the twilight because then one finds
the union of contrasts. And the ground on which the artist stands and works is
also like that of the magician who operates on what doesn't exist -- or just
confusedly exists --and turns it into something..."
(the last two words of the last sentence are
"concrete and ordered" --I have deleted them becasue they are as yet uneasy and
volatile words in the fluxus vocabulary as I see
it--ed)
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