Here'a a wonderful descripton of spirit, especially in art. Actor Tilda Swinton is quoted here speaking about the late film maker and artist Derek Jarman in a Guardian article last week.

'What she misses, she has written, is "the whiff of the school play" about his work. "It tickles me still and I miss it terribly. The antidote it offers to the mirror ball of the marketable ... is meat and drink to so many of us looking for that dodgy wig, that moment of awkward zing, that loose corner where we might prise up the carpet and uncover the rich slates of something we might recognise as spirit." '