Quote for Today: Ursula K. Le Guin
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb …
Quote for Today: Helmuth Plessner
From an unfathomable primordial source, interior being [innern], the soul’s difficult-to-comprehend forms climb into the light of consciousness where they dissolve again like all genuine creations of the night. …
Look and Listen #24: Shirazeh Houshiary, Nothing is Deeper than the Skin
Iranian artist Shirazeh Houshiary lives and works in London. Her paintings, sculptures and virtual reality installations explore the ambiguity of being human and the interplay between the large, chaotic, and …
Quote for Today: Edgar Degas
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. ― Edgar Degas Edgar Degas, …
Quote for Today: Billy Collins
Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say …
Quote for Today: Robert Louis Stevenson
There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual …
Possessed by Violence: Valhalla Rising
Valhalla Rising is a complex and violent film, full of beautiful, savage images and scant dialogue. What actually happens onscreen? Nicolas Winding Refn‘s brutal tour-de-force Valhalla Rising stars Mads Mikkelsen …
Quote for Today: Lawrence Durrell
Soon it will be evening and the clear night sky will be dusted thickly with Summer stars. I shall be here, as always, smoking by the water. I have decided …
Quote for Today: Barbara Kingsolver
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, …
An Obscure Sign: Totem by Katherine McDaniel
What do you see in this spontaneous drawing? I draw first and find meaning later, so you can’t be wrong. This drawing is entitled Totem because of its vague …