Quote for Today: Leonard Bernstein
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that …
Quote for Today: Ansel Adams
You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you …
White Temple from Fabulous 50s
This is a gorgeous blog… take a look at the photo of the sculptured hands at the White Temple in Thailand! Very unusual and exquisite. Reblogged from Fabulous 50s by …
Quote for Today: Frank O’Hara
I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute …
Innovation through our Limitations: The Creativity of Bob Fosse
We often view our limitations as stumbling blocks. What might happen if we embraced them and created through them instead? Bob looked different than the other dancers. He was small. …
Quote for Today: Madeleine L’Engle
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, “Here I am. Enflesh me. …
Transcending Cultures through the Arts, Part One
Why is art a great way to break down barriers? It engages our humanity and reveals common ground between cultures. The didjeridoo is a wind instrument that originated in Australia …
Making Beginnings Out of Endings, Part Two
In the light of recent events, what can the creative community do to help a culture in shock and mourning? When I left this post open-ended I had no idea …
Making Beginnings out of Endings, Part One
Life experiences can make us feel alone and helpless. The best medicine may be to embrace creativity and get moving. In a scene from the 1988 Belgian-French film The Music Teacher, …