Jordan Peterson: Why You Need Art in Your Life

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  • @PhilosophyInsights
    @PhilosophyInsights6 жыл бұрын

    If you are interested in this topic, in this interview Peterson speaks about creativity and art and the personality traits of artists: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dY2b19B8lKneipc.html

  • @blw4967

    @blw4967

    6 жыл бұрын

    Great share, thanks.

  • @vfpfootball

    @vfpfootball

    6 жыл бұрын

    PhilosophyInsights I am dying without my art.

  • @dagoelius

    @dagoelius

    6 жыл бұрын

    Shame the audio is terrible. No lapel mics were used.

  • @j03man44

    @j03man44

    6 жыл бұрын

    Kanye had a tab to this video open in one of his tweets

  • @Vexedart

    @Vexedart

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for verbalizing the vision and journey of the artist so eloquently.

  • @kmdn1
    @kmdn16 жыл бұрын

    Back when I was a freshman in college at art school, getting ready to study painting as my major, I reconnected with an old friend from middle school. He was telling me he just began studying the sciences, chemistry and biology, saying he hoped to become a doctor in the end and "ya know, 'cure cancer' and whatnot." I responded humbly "here I am studying painting pretty pictures and you're doing something really useful and noble- aiming to save people's lives." What he responded has always stuck with me and is a great metaphor for what Peterson is saying here. He said "if it weren't for art, there would be no reason to cure cancer." You can keep humans living but it is art that gives value to human life.

  • @souzanemayes5670

    @souzanemayes5670

    6 ай бұрын

    Wow.

  • @cativillegas

    @cativillegas

    5 ай бұрын

    Oof. Thank you for this beautiful reminder. Sometimes (more than often) I question my worth as a person because art chose me. I can't do anything else, don't really know how to do much outside of my creative fields. But this, this is game changer. Thank you.

  • @Mad-ik4fq

    @Mad-ik4fq

    5 ай бұрын

    As a born artist who has been avoiding that fact for adulthood stability, this hit me really hard. Thank you for sharing

  • @tatasobol4505

    @tatasobol4505

    5 ай бұрын

    Bravo!!

  • @laracate3533

    @laracate3533

    5 ай бұрын

    bruh i just cried... thank you for sharing this

  • @eddysgaming9868
    @eddysgaming98686 жыл бұрын

    Ive had years of college level art education and you rarely hear the purpose and meaning of art articulated so precisely.

  • @dangoorevitch7114

    @dangoorevitch7114

    6 жыл бұрын

    I've posted something about Cezanne I never learned in art school on my FB page. It's important or so I think.

  • @wolfpack4128

    @wolfpack4128

    6 жыл бұрын

    As an engineer there's a part of me that thinks art doesn't advance society while there's another side that feels like it has to be important to our survival and prosperity or else it wouldn't exist. This video definitely helps with understanding logically something that is really mostly emotional (art).

  • @rileya7652

    @rileya7652

    6 жыл бұрын

    good engineering can be art

  • @Puleczech

    @Puleczech

    6 жыл бұрын

    wolfpack4128 Ha, I think the other way around. I don’t think it is important (as in essential) to our day to day survival. But I think it does advance society for sure and has been since the cave painting era. Take for instance the first jewellery. It was not essential to survival whether you owned piece of gold or a golden ring. But turning the piece of gold into something new and aesthetically pleasing suddenly increased the value of the item itself, of its owner and of the entire society which produced those things. And I don’t mean just the economics of this of course. That’s why we learn that the most advanced societies in our history always had the most interesting, groundbreaking and evolved art. There is definitely a strong correlation. It goes probably both ways, but it is not like “we have built all the roads and hydratating systems already, so lets do some art now.” The art has been there all the time. The same principle works until now. Also look at the role of art in oppressive regimes or dictatorships. Where would nazi Germany be without the strong propaganda machine, which was essentially art? Or the soviet union without the statues and monuments. Those directly influenced the evolution of their societies and even societies thousands of kilometers away...

  • @tropuni7088

    @tropuni7088

    6 жыл бұрын

    yah i feel the same way exactly. i think too much of it is a problem but it is also needed to keep things going. kinda like environmentalism. no one wants to see all the cool animals and environments gone but we also cant just doddle around with it and live in a fantasy.

  • @Roan7995
    @Roan79956 жыл бұрын

    "...because life is too tragic in the absence of the sublime." I'm putting that on my wall.

  • @JoeGelman

    @JoeGelman

    6 жыл бұрын

    "We have art in order not to die of the truth." -Friedrich Nietzsche Not to downplay Dr. Peterson, but I've no doubt he's paraphrasing one of his favorite thinkers. But it's his delivery and passion that make him great.

  • @LaurenHanaChai

    @LaurenHanaChai

    6 жыл бұрын

    Such a good line...!!!

  • @solodolotrevino

    @solodolotrevino

    6 жыл бұрын

    Joe Gelman I’m sure Nietzsche didn’t reach his conclusions on his own either. JP is so masterful at distilling and communicating knowledge with his own spin it’s forgivable.

  • @lilywrites4357

    @lilywrites4357

    2 жыл бұрын

    same...

  • @Armaan8014
    @Armaan80146 жыл бұрын

    Art also transforms tragedy into beauty

  • @Armaan8014

    @Armaan8014

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jared Dowty :)

  • @dangoorevitch7114

    @dangoorevitch7114

    6 жыл бұрын

    Almost. It makes sense of tragedy and it's the way in which it does so that is beautiful.

  • @joni8768

    @joni8768

    6 жыл бұрын

    Love transforms beauty into tragedy

  • @ALEN1ful

    @ALEN1ful

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well said

  • @Esko354

    @Esko354

    6 жыл бұрын

    I smell some nietzche around here :P

  • @TheJavaMonkey
    @TheJavaMonkey6 жыл бұрын

    I don't think I've ever heard the function, utility and necessity of art so cogently, concisely, and intelligently articulated before.

  • @pieuvre776

    @pieuvre776

    6 жыл бұрын

    Java Monkey It's really refreshing to hear. A lot of people I've known over the years have said art is useless, it serves no purpose, if only people would give up on art the world would be a better place, blah blah blah

  • @TheJavaMonkey

    @TheJavaMonkey

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's not essential to life in the same way as, say, food, water, or oxygen, but I believe it _is_ essential to life, fundamentally. Art helps us remember what is important about the past, realize what's necessary for the future, revitalizes culture, and teaches us things about ourselves and about humanity which we could not otherwise be able to comprehend. It's also the driving mechanism by which tyranny may rise or fall, and which civilization requires as the cornerstone for its very cohesion. Art is, fundamentally, the weapon with which we combat entropy and the collapse of human civilization, the mechanism by which we criticize our shortcomings in hopes of demonstrating where there is marked need for improvement, course correction, and preventative measures against impending dangers not yet realized, and it's the most resilient method we have to preserve beauty and the ideals we mustn't let go. There's a reason that totalitarian states have very specific, deliberate, and tightly regulated aesthetics and iconography. The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Mao's China, and North Korea are striking examples of how state-regulated art and iconography can be extremely powerful tools of indoctrination and suppression of independent thought. And, quite often, it's by means of subversive art that stimulates and fosters such thought that those very tyrannical governments and ideologies are toppled. I'm not sure that a free and civilized society would even be possible without art. Despite being a non-fictional account, I'm not sure a work such as _The Gulag Archipelago_ could be accurately described as anything other than a work of art, and it was one of the most powerful contributing factors to the fall of the USSR. It may not be necessary to the survival of the individual, but I would contend that it is absolutely necessary for the survival of society as a whole.

  • @TheJavaMonkey

    @TheJavaMonkey

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I greatly appreciate it. I agree that Jordan Peterson's comment sections are generally quite excellent places. Lots of constructive conversations and interesting perspectives and incisive observations that one might never have otherwise considered. Mostly, a lot of people who place a great deal of value in free and open dialogue - something which is, unfortunately, very rare to find, especially online. Art is a topic of particular significance to me, both personally and professionally, so it's a delight to hear Professor Peterson's insight on the matter, and to discuss it with others. While the professor is quite right in pointing out that artistic ventures are frustratingly difficult to monetize, I've been fortunate enough to operate a small business as a freelance artist over the past nine years, and generate a modest income by means of it. By no metric can my work be considered profound or culturally significant, but it is nevertheless a great passion of mine, and has been as far back as I can remember.

  • @TheJavaMonkey

    @TheJavaMonkey

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wow, that is a staggeringly ignorant assertion. My first inclination is to write you off as either a troll, or merely a simpleton in the extreme. But, in the spirit of open conversation and debate, I'll bite: what reasoning leads you to include that one of the most ancient and enduring of humanity's creations has no meaning, function, utility, or necessity? I'm not asking rhetorically; I would be very interested to see if you've a cogent argument to elucidate.

  • @owenbenjaminshapiro6285

    @owenbenjaminshapiro6285

    6 жыл бұрын

    Java Monkey it's a troll. If you equate great works of art with coloring books and (bad) fiction writing, you lack the capability to judge quality and aesthetics. Basically, you're a robot at that point

  • @JoeyJ1984
    @JoeyJ19846 жыл бұрын

    Jordan Peterson is Dragon Energy

  • @SwingDancer61

    @SwingDancer61

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dragon with some frog DNA.

  • @4516n41

    @4516n41

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nah when your hormones start to regulate he becomes just another fad.

  • @jzonkel

    @jzonkel

    5 жыл бұрын

    you're not listening

  • @selfelements8037
    @selfelements80376 жыл бұрын

    "A real piece of art is a window into the domain of the transcendent."

  • @villiestephanov984

    @villiestephanov984

    6 жыл бұрын

    Algore Daemon , Or that you would rend the heavens, when you would come down! That the mountains might shake @ Your Presence- to make Your name known to your adversaries.

  • @greybeard804

    @greybeard804

    6 жыл бұрын

    And good for nothing when it comes to feeding the kids...

  • @fernie51296

    @fernie51296

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ken Durham maybe there’s more to life than just reproducing and surviving. Well, there is for me.

  • @thebobsagetguy

    @thebobsagetguy

    6 жыл бұрын

    Read paradise lost after watching this

  • @thebobsagetguy

    @thebobsagetguy

    6 жыл бұрын

    Alice InChristchurch I’m glad my comment could be the catalyst. It is a remarkable piece of art and history, a truly transcendent epic. Enjoy

  • @dookie_12
    @dookie_126 жыл бұрын

    I love free thinking

  • @4516n41

    @4516n41

    6 жыл бұрын

    Then you'd love this. Why did he have to bring god into this?

  • @4516n41

    @4516n41

    6 жыл бұрын

    @paganist Thinking costs energy and there is no such thing as free lunch ;Þ

  • @RyanSmith-wo2pi

    @RyanSmith-wo2pi

    4 жыл бұрын

    Me too.

  • @r.t.1710

    @r.t.1710

    4 жыл бұрын

    check this: Definitons of art / film art assignment kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKikw7ilmqrOccY.html

  • @Rachel_M_
    @Rachel_M_6 жыл бұрын

    "In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” (Ernst Fischer)

  • @idleeidolon

    @idleeidolon

    6 жыл бұрын

    more like modern art is shit, because the world is going to shit.

  • @Rachel_M_

    @Rachel_M_

    6 жыл бұрын

    the modernist movement began in the early 20th century with the impressionists, surrealists, cubists etc. i very much doubt you are both talking about Matisse, Picasso, Mondrian, Manet, Monet or dali. After this came the Post modern art movement, borne out of the DaDa movement which was areaction to the avant garde modernists i mention above. followed by shock art, pop art and then post-post modern art. i think you both may be referring to contemporary art. which is art made currently.

  • @Rachel_M_

    @Rachel_M_

    6 жыл бұрын

    which later gave us "artist's shit" in 1961, yet another tongue in cheek poke at the art establishment

  • @dangervich

    @dangervich

    6 жыл бұрын

    The urinal was entered into a competition because Duchamp didn't believe his friends' claim to be as liberal as they claimed to be. It was a practical joke.

  • @Rachel_M_

    @Rachel_M_

    6 жыл бұрын

    indeed it was a joke, as was most if not all of the DaDaists work. that was kind of their manifesto. the same goes for "Artists Shit"

  • @MrDrewbies
    @MrDrewbies6 жыл бұрын

    Hey Kanye

  • @olliesvk

    @olliesvk

    6 жыл бұрын

    I literally came here because of his tweet

  • @BenCadetThePastafarian

    @BenCadetThePastafarian

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sauce???

  • @r.t.1710

    @r.t.1710

    4 жыл бұрын

    check this: Definitons of art / film art assignment kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKikw7ilmqrOccY.html

  • @SeraphimGoose
    @SeraphimGoose6 жыл бұрын

    Jordan Peterson is Jungian to the core. His ability to describe how the inner images and archetypes of the collective unconscious manifest themselves in our individual & collective behavior is phenomenal.

  • @callum7081

    @callum7081

    Жыл бұрын

    He did a serious study of jung at one point in his education

  • @jebbush3130
    @jebbush31306 жыл бұрын

    I love the way Jordan Peterson thinks

  • @thephilosophersjourney2595

    @thephilosophersjourney2595

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fuck off!

  • @r.t.1710

    @r.t.1710

    4 жыл бұрын

    check this: Definitons of art / film art assignment kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKikw7ilmqrOccY.html

  • @loopyfoodable
    @loopyfoodable6 жыл бұрын

    As a college student who is constantly doubted for the practicality of my liberal arts degree, this talk was very reassuring to hear and encourages me to continue pursuing what I love

  • @AdamWanly

    @AdamWanly

    5 ай бұрын

    Five years after you wrote your comment, I just wanted to say that I hope you're still encouraged.

  • @karamlevi

    @karamlevi

    5 ай бұрын

    If you work hard and smart… you’ll capitalize on your degree. If you work hard and smart without a degree you just capitalize. Go win it y’all.

  • @srs3572

    @srs3572

    4 ай бұрын

    I’m planning on going back to school to finish my fine arts degree and also resonate with this speech. There is great value in what we are doing.

  • @ariapearl7059
    @ariapearl70592 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Jordan Peterson, this helped me. I'm an artist and I've been dealing with insecurities around the value of art and the value of my art.

  • @charliestubbs6151

    @charliestubbs6151

    Жыл бұрын

    You’re having an experience, and you’re trying to get better and better at expressing it. No need for insecurity in that process whatsoever. Imagine your creative heroes urging you onward rather than allowing their great works to discourage and deflate you.

  • @Netizen5000
    @Netizen50003 жыл бұрын

    Art is like a letter I write for my relatives so they may read. A letter that can capture a memory, an emotion, a simple drawing that contains a lot of thoughts as much as a book, a simple music that speaks more than a whole day conversation in a meeting.

  • @BarbaraM-lv7pe

    @BarbaraM-lv7pe

    6 ай бұрын

    Muhammad ZZ, Yes, my great uncle who was an artist and whose son and daughter became an architect and artist respectively always told me as a child to hone my drawing skills because art is the language that we “speak” to the world in order relay our creative ideas

  • @eizzatakrami6273

    @eizzatakrami6273

    5 ай бұрын

    ​What a wise word from your uncle

  • @favoriteone8636
    @favoriteone86365 ай бұрын

    Dr. Peterson just saved my creative being! I do have a very strong talent that I have tip-toed around and down played my entire life. This speech will catapult me out of hiding...I am going to listen to it many times. If only someone would have shared this with me as a child! THANK YOU sir from the bottom of my heart! ❤❤❤

  • @abcdeeeeff

    @abcdeeeeff

    5 ай бұрын

    And what the creative art you have can u share

  • @favoriteone8636

    @favoriteone8636

    5 ай бұрын

    Thank u for asking...right now I am just in the experimental stage but even that is entertaining!

  • @jcgm90
    @jcgm906 жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely beautiful. I want to be like him when I grow up... wait, I'm already growing up... oh well, time to buckle up, sort myself out and get my act together

  • @seremetvlad

    @seremetvlad

    6 жыл бұрын

    jcgm90 did you clean your room, bucko?

  • @dba1pro29

    @dba1pro29

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nice. Right there with you

  • @gingfreecss3808

    @gingfreecss3808

    3 жыл бұрын

    Here with ya! Have a great day! God Bless! Stay strong, stay safe and take care of yourselves! Wishing everyone the best! Jesus loves you! May the Holy Spirit guide you! 😇 💗🕊

  • @Wellwtfallthenamesaretooken

    @Wellwtfallthenamesaretooken

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@seremetvlad no daddy. I didn’t clean my room. Come spank me.

  • @Kanelkakan
    @Kanelkakan6 жыл бұрын

    I've had years and years of college-level art education and you rarely hear ANYTHING this inspiring and clear-cut coming out of academia. I have not felt so alive and also affected on a deeper level by anything in quite some time. This video was a true vivifier, energizer, revitalizer.

  • @gingfreecss3808

    @gingfreecss3808

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed it was Have a great day! God Bless! Stay strong, stay safe and take care of yourselves! Wishing everyone the best! Jesus loves you! May the Holy Spirit guide you! 😇 💗🕊

  • @paulhandley3246
    @paulhandley32466 жыл бұрын

    'Stumbling towards the kingdom of God'. Peterson is an absolute, unadulterated joy.

  • @ajf9408
    @ajf94086 жыл бұрын

    A good public speaker looks the audience in the eye during a presentation. But this guy, the master, looks at his shoes most of the time. I think it's because hardly anything is rehearsed and he is just pulling it out and creating it at that very moment. It's awesome to observe.

  • @ericdecker2914

    @ericdecker2914

    6 жыл бұрын

    Austin Fieldsted That's just the perspective, he's looking right at the front rows.

  • @akallstar5
    @akallstar56 жыл бұрын

    I've never been captivated by any EVER. Never TRULY captivated. Many people in recent times have been impressively smart and enlightening: David Chalmers, Sam Harris, Chris Hitchens, Dan Dennett etc... But have captured the human spirit and condition, been able to analyze it and attack it from ALL angles, and then articulate it so beautifully, genuinely, and clearly... on the fly. I love this man. I'm captivated.

  • @donedumi-leslie5304

    @donedumi-leslie5304

    6 жыл бұрын

    Are you saying that the people you listed have captivated you or not? Also, could you recommend some more people who have been able to do this? I've recently moved and nobody in my immediate surrounding really fits the bill.

  • @Xiorx71

    @Xiorx71

    6 жыл бұрын

    Poor *Christopher* is rolling in his grave. 🤣😢

  • @abdulmalikjahar-al-buhairi9754

    @abdulmalikjahar-al-buhairi9754

    6 жыл бұрын

    Alex Kane Those are the people you think of when you try to list smart personalities?

  • @goldminer754

    @goldminer754

    5 жыл бұрын

    My way of feeling and being myself is far better captured by Sam Harrises statement about the mind and I always have this bad taste in my mouth when Jordan starts telling that I kind of believe in god just for interacting in some way with the transcendence

  • @amyleemurr
    @amyleemurr5 жыл бұрын

    I've been having a very silent, deep, heart shattering, life depriving struggle. I just don't talk about it. I dont know how too. This man seems to have plugged into my head and all I can do while watching this, is cry. The depth, the truth, and my silent struggle...my soul cries. No one can understand. I cant even explain it. Thanks for posting this. -A dying artist.

  • @guineverewilde9847

    @guineverewilde9847

    6 ай бұрын

    Awaken artist.

  • @srs3572

    @srs3572

    4 ай бұрын

    Amy, I’m here now and I hope you are too. ❤

  • @victoriabutanu5400
    @victoriabutanu54005 жыл бұрын

    it's amazing to see when he's searching for words in this one, unlike when he discusses more concrete matters, here one can feel how overwhelmed with pure awe he is, his soul is vibrating in the higher octave and it's like he understands that words cannot even come close to expressing his deep humility in the face of great art, like he would rather disolve into a hymn or dance or something

  • @amphitriti
    @amphitriti6 жыл бұрын

    This man has such breadth of knowledge it's unbelievable... And he makes things sound so clear and straightforward that you find them obvious once heard even when they're very complicated edit: also parts of his lectures are effectively art performances because he demonstrates complex concepts and puts his soul into it

  • @superevan07
    @superevan076 жыл бұрын

    "...life is too tragic and dismal in the absence of the sublime." I love that.

  • @CaseyCJL
    @CaseyCJL6 жыл бұрын

    I can now justify my whimsical purchases of pokemon cards. I am finite and limited but my pokemon collection is a window into the transcendent.

  • @tropuni7088

    @tropuni7088

    6 жыл бұрын

    and you can think that way about everything pertaining to beauty. just dont let it burden your healthy functioning

  • @apteryx01

    @apteryx01

    6 жыл бұрын

    Justifying ≠ rationalizing

  • @beauxtalks

    @beauxtalks

    6 жыл бұрын

    jajaja

  • @AJ-mo6mw

    @AJ-mo6mw

    6 жыл бұрын

    The pokemon universe is actually pretty amazing in terms of imagination and creativity, not even kidding

  • @homoliber9546

    @homoliber9546

    6 жыл бұрын

    Anime is trash

  • @sarahmcardle6584
    @sarahmcardle65846 ай бұрын

    It’s really hard to make something beautiful, and it’s really worth while. And what’s really cool, is if you learn to make something beautiful, even one thing, if you could just make one thing beautiful in your life, then you’ve established a relationship with beauty, and then you can start to expand that beauty out in to the world, in to other elements of your life and that is so worthwhile…. it’s crazily worth while. And that’s an invitation to the divine,… you have to be daring to do that. ❤ I had to write those words out. Beautiful words

  • @megamaux777
    @megamaux7776 жыл бұрын

    as an artist, thank god someone actually says something correct and important and nice. art is so attached to the left right now that we are being thrown out with the swamp water.... its a shame. i just thank god someone can see and show the more important truth behind what we go through. thanks jorden. your the man brother.

  • @emilydrew6030
    @emilydrew60306 жыл бұрын

    This is so amazing! As a musician and creative, I resonate the strongly with the "dying" when I'm not creating. This really helped me to know my own value and worth as an artist!

  • @hayesism
    @hayesism6 жыл бұрын

    I'm still waiting to watch a video of Jordan Peterson where he doesn't completely obliterate my mind.

  • @youssefa.2251

    @youssefa.2251

    6 жыл бұрын

    Would that really be worth it? ;)

  • @injhs

    @injhs

    3 жыл бұрын

    What's obliteratE

  • @Dropthebeatonit

    @Dropthebeatonit

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Chris Hayes hahahaha ditto!

  • @petroniaskho
    @petroniaskho6 жыл бұрын

    "Just buy a piece of art!" I love this man.

  • @VagueLuminary
    @VagueLuminary6 жыл бұрын

    This is the best timeline.

  • @ConsciousRobot
    @ConsciousRobot6 жыл бұрын

    The passion, emotion, and excitement in his voice talking about art is heartwarming to me.

  • @HeWhoHath
    @HeWhoHath6 жыл бұрын

    JBP: Master of the pregnant pause.

  • @The_Ballo

    @The_Ballo

    6 жыл бұрын

    Charlie Rose will always be king of the pregnant pause.

  • @machochocolate7679

    @machochocolate7679

    6 жыл бұрын

    What is that?

  • @ExcellaRE5fan
    @ExcellaRE5fan6 жыл бұрын

    Hearing the Good Doctor say "fuck" gave me life.

  • @BarbVice13

    @BarbVice13

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Voice of Reason because it fit at that moment in that context and had even more impact because he rarely curses at all, and certainly not gratuitously.

  • @slaphappybullet
    @slaphappybullet6 жыл бұрын

    It's beautiful how well he understands people. He truly sees them. Each individual. Sometimes I can hear it in his voice, his soul exclaiming "How can you not appreciate all that we are?"

  • @paddyinthepantry1445
    @paddyinthepantry14456 жыл бұрын

    "Life is too dismal and tragic in the absence of the, sublime."

  • @absw6129
    @absw61296 жыл бұрын

    I'm very introverted, high in concienciousness, high in openness. I find I do well when I get to do creative writing while isolating myself from people. There is something to these big five traits for sure.

  • @lazarusblackwell6988
    @lazarusblackwell69883 жыл бұрын

    Art energizes us It inspires us Brings us closer to other people

  • @Eltonm28
    @Eltonm285 жыл бұрын

    I have not come across ANYONE who speaks with THIS much passion! A man Driven by the Love for Truth and Knowledge. Listening to him puts a smile on my face and brings a tear to my eye. He enriches lives and speaks truth. He is careful and intricate with his words. I thank God he has a stage 🙏🏼

  • @SOIBand
    @SOIBand6 жыл бұрын

    I love this man. Never have I heard a better reasoning why art is so ultimatively important.

  • @clayc1287
    @clayc12876 жыл бұрын

    KANYE IS CLEANING HIS ROOM

  • @sassamadootwo

    @sassamadootwo

    6 жыл бұрын

    Clay C 😂😂😂

  • @NASkeywest
    @NASkeywest6 жыл бұрын

    Negativity, positivity, and creativity can all spread like a virus. You can lose everything home, job, family, but you still have your mind and creativity. You always have something of value you carry around.

  • @Gunrun808
    @Gunrun8086 жыл бұрын

    He would make a good star trek captain

  • @michealflaithbheartaigh4139

    @michealflaithbheartaigh4139

    6 жыл бұрын

    This is the best comment on here :D

  • @gabyguala
    @gabyguala5 ай бұрын

    It´s just so incredible powerful and motivating to listen to this man...and yes, life without art, in any form would be impossible to live through...

  • @moniqart-artastherapy1929
    @moniqart-artastherapy19295 ай бұрын

    I am An Art Therapist , I have a dual role of painting and making people paint to heal themselves. Art is my lifeline ..... now as I am a researcher also , I found that Art stimulates the frontal lobe of our brains , memory and cognition centres........and lots more .......we cannot teach children without an image , ART IS IMPORTANT, thanks for this beautiful talk .❤❤❤🙏

  • @dianadota4512
    @dianadota45126 жыл бұрын

    the most beautiful speech from this man. he explains something that is so hard to talk about. the domain of the transcendent

  • @lukeakerboom6298
    @lukeakerboom62984 жыл бұрын

    That is so powerful what he said at 8:20. I had a moment at my University where I completely broke in shock with the beauty and magnificence of the campus. I go the recreational center to train etc. seeing the beauty of the gym, architecture, the pools, the treas, the fields, the track...even the stinking locker rooms. The roofs are HUGE and let out sunlight. There are so many birds because of how many trees are there. I broke down because I understood the meaning of what I was feeling. I also had a nihilistic experience before this in my life. What he said about the beauty beckoning you towards "greatness", sort of like an ideal...i felt almost absolute guilt for how much opportunity I missed at this magnificent campus. Now, on my way to the NAVY, it felt and the beauty consumed me with an over abundance of joy to be putting to use what someone has invested billions of dollars to create for someone just to use.

  • @Ba55gui
    @Ba55gui3 жыл бұрын

    I have consistently re watched this video from time to time over the last two years. Something in it speaks to me on a very deep level and I find the topic incredibly insightful. This has to be my favorite segment of Dr Peterson, and I have watched countless hours of his talks

  • @LaurenHanaChai
    @LaurenHanaChai6 жыл бұрын

    Peterson needs to do a whole art/artist series of talks in depth!!

  • @HeriJoensen
    @HeriJoensen6 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Peterson nailed it!

  • @PeterMuskMusic
    @PeterMuskMusic6 жыл бұрын

    that talk is so important to me..

  • @Darthbelal
    @Darthbelal6 жыл бұрын

    I'm Conservative/Libertarian and I LIKE art, thank you very much.

  • @knownkilotx7439
    @knownkilotx74396 жыл бұрын

    Thank u Kanye for bringing me here. Just wow

  • @1gadena

    @1gadena

    6 жыл бұрын

    KnownKiloTx Had you not heard of Jordan Peterson before? He's great :D

  • @petef.4688

    @petef.4688

    6 жыл бұрын

    These comments make me so happy

  • @medscootsman8429
    @medscootsman84296 жыл бұрын

    Dankest timeline

  • @warriorforchristscarlet3623
    @warriorforchristscarlet36235 ай бұрын

    I've been a self taught artist since I was little, I'm still going at it in life, won't stop either.. art is God given to me.. and I can have that opportunity to bring some joy to others through my work. ❤❤

  • @sharonomach

    @sharonomach

    5 ай бұрын

    I am about to start learning photography as an art ,I am so scared. I want to make it as an escape not necessarily for any monetary gain tho photography equipment drains my savings

  • @tejinderkaur3475

    @tejinderkaur3475

    5 ай бұрын

    I've started to draw and paint watercolor at 68 and it's filling my life with inexplicable joy and completeness.

  • @warriorforchristscarlet3623

    @warriorforchristscarlet3623

    5 ай бұрын

    @@tejinderkaur3475 I'm glad to hear that

  • @warriorforchristscarlet3623

    @warriorforchristscarlet3623

    5 ай бұрын

    @@sharonomach well, start out small, find a camera you can afford at the moment. Use it, practice, enjoy the process and continue building it up, and maybe, Lord willing, you can expand your passion more so, maybe even bring joy to others with the paths you take. And are given. Don't be afraid to step out and move forward, gotta take that first step

  • @isorokudono
    @isorokudono6 жыл бұрын

    He went from a Covenant with God to Punk Rock. Hallelujah. .

  • @scoodler

    @scoodler

    6 жыл бұрын

    All the punkrockers I've known were also hardcore art lovers. Goths are the same.

  • @thelastfreedomfighter2646

    @thelastfreedomfighter2646

    6 жыл бұрын

    Too bad postmodernists die in the end

  • @johnnyscifi

    @johnnyscifi

    6 жыл бұрын

    The lyrics in that clash song "death or glory" about how the nun-fuckers always endup joining the church...;)

  • @chuy8356

    @chuy8356

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@johnnyscifi There's actually a Canadian hardcore punk band called The Nunfuckers. They're actually pretty good.

  • @b-maven9247
    @b-maven92475 ай бұрын

    Never seen anyone speak with so much conviction about Art. Let's agree we much needed this, because even Artists don't speak about the preservation of their own creations like this. It is the value that others give to their art their that leads to its preservation.

  • @maryalexandriamailler2255
    @maryalexandriamailler22556 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this, Dr. Peterson.. Thank you...

  • @mjhard2
    @mjhard26 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Kayne!

  • @shaynegreen
    @shaynegreen6 жыл бұрын

    This is beautiful. Music to my ears. Thank you for posting

  • @MohammadAhmad-fi3pt
    @MohammadAhmad-fi3ptАй бұрын

    I'm just like that when someone asks to me talk about what's close to my heart; it's so gratifying seeing him because I didn't know other people could be like that

  • @echostarsinc
    @echostarsinc6 жыл бұрын

    So true; there was recently an amazing sculpture show at HillView Sutton Forest (NSW, Australia) and I found myself going everyday that I could spare and taking friends. A reminder as to how much power art has and why we need it so much in our lives.

  • @bridgethenderson6849
    @bridgethenderson68496 жыл бұрын

    Because art is beauty. And beauty is love. And love is the meaning of life.

  • @astalander6061
    @astalander60616 жыл бұрын

    I am an artist. And I love our local Cathedral. I loved listening to this. And his enthusiasm. So grateful for this.

  • @reversionist
    @reversionist6 жыл бұрын

    Yeezy taught me

  • @cyriltemerev71
    @cyriltemerev715 жыл бұрын

    We need more people like him!

  • @williama.hovestreydt6623
    @williama.hovestreydt66236 жыл бұрын

    Marvelous talk!! Love it! Thanks for sharing!!!

  • @thiagoccmorais
    @thiagoccmorais4 жыл бұрын

    There is no other word besides "perfect" to say how he just translated all those feelings that an artist could feel

  • @FlorentBraquart
    @FlorentBraquart4 жыл бұрын

    I am an artist, thank you for these words. I understand myself more, and this helps the world to understand me as well.

  • @sv9818
    @sv98186 жыл бұрын

    Amazing, this man is a true intellectual giant!

  • @lizafetissova4078
    @lizafetissova40784 жыл бұрын

    Art. Connecting people to themselves. ( my motto).I Had shivers listening to him- EVERY phrase, EVERY thought is exactly mine.. now I know how I will develop my KZread channel- his speech are my bullet points.

  • @lessevdoolbretsim
    @lessevdoolbretsim6 жыл бұрын

    I love that man more every time I listen to him speak. What an inspired human being.

  • @tomkelly8827
    @tomkelly88276 жыл бұрын

    As a Canadian I am so very proud of our savageness. Our wild lands. Our yet untamed wilderness. The beauty that exists here is beyond your wildest imaginings. Breathtaking. Many of us work tirelessly to help others enjoy this wild clean beauty. Fresh air, fresh water. Many work tirelessly to destroy it too. From the lakes and rivers dotting the east to the golden windswept prairie lands to the magnificent western mountains to the truly wild northern conifer forests and vast mossy tundra. Old growth forests, moose, caribou, polar bears, and on and on. Our beauty can also be found in art galleries. But I really suggest to you that the beauty in this country will never fit inside the Louvre or any other gallery. To experience the beauty of this place you need to brave our savage land. Surely you will be glad if you do.

  • @cgandrieu9385
    @cgandrieu93853 жыл бұрын

    I just discovered this and find so many echoes to my work, especially my book Bridge to Wonder. Very good work by professor Peterson, congratulations. Cecilia Gonzalez-Andrieu

  • @caveatemp
    @caveatemp6 жыл бұрын

    It is a great gift from God merely to appreciate good art and music. I got to 50 years old before I really discovered Mozart. Good Lord! My life has been enriched. The great joy his music has given me, the passion, the tears, the laughter- this is priceless! I am lucky to live near a beautiful Catholic basilica. It's a joy to simply sit there, let alone participating in a mass. But Mozart- think of it- he lived over two hundred years ago and no one has surpassed what he accomplished in his relatively short life.

  • @faasramaekers
    @faasramaekers8 ай бұрын

    The video starting with: "Why?" Might be the most accurate Jordan Peterson lecture start ever.

  • @caseywest9668
    @caseywest96686 жыл бұрын

    Jordan peterson will save America

  • @ddriveddrive4986

    @ddriveddrive4986

    6 жыл бұрын

    casey west he will save the west

  • @greybeard804

    @greybeard804

    6 жыл бұрын

    No, nothing can do that, except the people themselves.

  • @jenny-ro6gm

    @jenny-ro6gm

    6 жыл бұрын

    except he is canadian

  • @michealflaithbheartaigh4139

    @michealflaithbheartaigh4139

    6 жыл бұрын

    Are you seriously trying to compare Trump to Peterson ?

  • @DarrenSemotiuk

    @DarrenSemotiuk

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jordan Peterson will save THE WEST (with the help of exposure via Kanye West!)

  • @CrazycruxGaming
    @CrazycruxGaming6 жыл бұрын

    I'm definitely like that. If I don't write down my thoughts and constantly expose myself to new ideas, I really do die.

  • @rjn8001
    @rjn80016 жыл бұрын

    Peterson's lectures are art.

  • @charleshancock152
    @charleshancock1524 жыл бұрын

    I needed this. Thanks.

  • @GrubKiller436
    @GrubKiller4366 жыл бұрын

    I watched half of this and I couldn't really absorb what Jordan Peterson was saying. I was focused on my developing understanding of what art is, via having been influenced by Jordan Peterson throughout the months. And I think he most influenced me this way when he was on Joe Rogan's show/podcast and he was explaining the significant of music. He went on to explain how you're right in the middle of the sounds of the orchestra, and it's so profound... Peterson says something along the lines of, "that's the proper mode of being." It's meaningful because music and other forms of art speak to our spirits; it's expression. So knowing Peterson as I do, from having watched so many of his lectures, I can see how he finds meaning to be at the heart of many things; Art, obviously included. I used to see art as arbitrary, because from an objective/physical/alien perspective (however you want to word it), you're using a material (let's say paint) and spraying it on a canvas and then saying that's brilliant/significant. If aliens saw us doing that, they'd think: "What the hell? That makes no sense." It makes no sense on an objective/scientific level, but it speaks volumes to us on a humanistic level, because we need meaning to exist. Because of that, it speaks to us deeply. As a quote from the actor Robin Williams, "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."

  • @Trplsr
    @Trplsr6 жыл бұрын

    Hi Kanye, you have a good taste in videos.

  • @carpenterhillstudios8327
    @carpenterhillstudios8327 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you! I live in this space as someone who can do no other.

  • @bluemansham1
    @bluemansham16 жыл бұрын

    Seriously love Jordan Peterson so much! 😊 ....he glows with passion from his heart ❤️ & that is a True Art!

  • @rolandbrake
    @rolandbrake6 жыл бұрын

    Kanye if you are still here i just want you to know we all with you fight for your freedom of thought

  • @matinprsd
    @matinprsd6 жыл бұрын

    I think it's quite interesting that Kanye West watched this video.

  • @eleanorhorgan8091
    @eleanorhorgan80914 ай бұрын

    Thank you Dr. Peterson.

  • @bluemansham1
    @bluemansham16 жыл бұрын

    I've been a Professional Artist since 1986 & feel Deeply with all he utters! Beauty in the Deepest sense! 😊🙏🎨

  • @ioanvlad4008
    @ioanvlad40086 жыл бұрын

    "Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate." (Andre Malraux)

  • @metoonunyabidness1391
    @metoonunyabidness13916 жыл бұрын

    Read, think and communicate Grammar, logic, rhetoric

  • @ELPLAK
    @ELPLAK6 ай бұрын

    Art is a way of living, the way you dress up,, how you arrange your hair, and all the nuances attached to life, so, art is a way we express things, we, other wise, will be difficult to express with words.

  • @MissAdamLambert888
    @MissAdamLambert8886 жыл бұрын

    He's SO passionate it moves your soul!

  • @jammmmmppa
    @jammmmmppa6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Kanye!

  • @georginakaye1021
    @georginakaye10216 жыл бұрын

    Kanye brought me back here (Long time fan of Peterson though.)

  • @efxnews4776
    @efxnews47766 жыл бұрын

    Art was the first indicative of conciousness, no wonder that we usualy be in awe when we see a masterpiece of art.

  • @rheaofsunshine918
    @rheaofsunshine918 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Peterson. You're mind is brilliant to put it lightly 🎨❤️

  • @truthuniversity6433
    @truthuniversity64336 жыл бұрын

    Epic Speech

  • @rabble.rouser
    @rabble.rouser6 жыл бұрын

    Kanye West brought me here.