Quote for Today: Chuck Close
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us …
Quote for Today: Pablo Picasso
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from …
Quote for Today: Anselm Kiefer
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the …
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 …
Featured Artist: Nessa Voss
Meet multi-talented artist, photographer and short-story writer Nessa Voss who returns to Synkroniciti with a stirring photo series called I assure you, we’re closed. The series features images from Houston, …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #14: Artist Jacqui Beck of Seattle
Two weeks into our Globe-trotting travel series, today we visit contemporary mixed-media artist Jacqui Beck of Seattle, painting in her beautiful backyard with her cats. For her, this quarantine time …
Quote for Today: Jennifer DeLucy
Even as a creative artist, I used to think enduring struggles and hard days in silence and telling people everything was great meant I was strong. And then I learned …
Quote for Today: Robert Henri
The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to think it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Brontë
She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, …
Quote for Today: Michael Bassey Johnson
Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in …