1.  As far as I am concerned, spirituality is the resource of art. Only when an artist has spirituality, can he create a piece of art touches the deepest part of people’s mind. Even though inspiration is import in the process of creating art as well, comparing to spirituality, inspiration is like spark. Inspiration can help people create a piece of art by accident. Normal people can have the inspiration to create a piece of art but only artists have the spirituality to create art. Besides talent, spirituality includes rich knowledge, experience and so on. Therefore, I think spirituality is the basement of artists but spirituality needs much time and energy to prepare. Only when the artists have rich knowledge and experience, can artists create art.

2. As spirituality has close relation with knowledge and experience, I believe spirituality will be different in different religion. Let’s take painting as example. Since long time ago, the western countries have different painting style from the western countries. The European paint oil painting while the Chinese enjoy wash painting. The European like painting people and objects, while Chinese like painting mountains-and-waters painting. We can conclude that spirituality differ from religion and people in different places tens to create different genres of art.

3. I refer creativity to people’s ability to create something new. Not only artists but also inventors need to take advantage of their creativity to create art. Only when they have creativity can they create art. But there are many factors which can influence the inventors and artists’ creativity such as education, daily life, experience and so on. The environment of the artists and inventors can also affect their creativity. Artists and inventors tend to create something which is closely related to their daily experience and the environment around them.

4. As artists tend to create something closely related to their daily life, artists tend to use their daily experience and the things which have touched them as the source of their creativity. For example, the western artists tend to paint the object which apparent to them every day such as egg, woman, fruits and so on. Just like the inventors tend to create some inventions which should be used in their daily life like washing machine and dish-washing machine, artists have the tendency to create something close to their daily life. Artists also create something abstract, but I think the source of it is still their daily experience.

The article named Deeply Seeing makes a distinction between look and see. The author thinks that sometimes we see things with our self-contained state of ego, but sometimes we see the world only with eye. We distinguish ourselves and the outer world with egoic boundaries (P.71). For example, I see the people we love with aesthetic thinking, but we look many other people with no sense of aesthetic consideration.

I think sometimes that we cannot see the world even though it is right in front of us because we are absent-minded. Only when we keep both our eyes and hearts can we feel the world. That can also be called the difference between seeing and looking. I think the difference between seeing and looking lies in the point that whether we have used our heart to feel it. The famous philosopher named Saint Bonaventure has put forward the idea that there are three eyes of knowing- the eye of flesh, the eye of reason and the mystic eye of contemplation (P.73). Meanwhile, there are also three eyes of knowing for artists. I believe that we spend most of our time of the look of flesh. We see many things with no thinking and attention. After seeing, we forget it and get used to it. Some educators have put forward the theory that children like repeat their actions again and again because they do have no idea of what the world is, so they have the feeling of safe by repeating their actions. We adult have got used to the world and we are so familiar to the world that we do not want to waste our time on observing the world. As the old saying goes, “Beauty means this to one and that to the other.” And a Chinese poet says, “Darkness gives me a pair of black eyes, but I use it for search of light.” Beauty can be found here and there in the world, but we tend to be less interested in looking for the beauty of the world. Nowadays, with the development of the society and the science, people spend more and more time on the technology such of telephone, ipad and so on. I think only when we feel the earth with our feet, touch the trees and flowers with our hands and see the world with our heart, can we enjoy the pleasure which is brought by the nature.