Quote for Today: Jean Arp
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the …
Quote for Today: Richard Bach
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can’t see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people …
Collaborations with the Self, Nature, and God: Sharon Strong’s Masks
Sharon Strong is a psychologist, a painter, a performance artist and a maker of masks who studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Sharon has worked as a …
Quote for Today: Michael Chabon
Yet entertainment–as I define it, pleasure and all–remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as if we have bridged, the gulf of consciousness …
Humans are Not Ants: The Need for Individuality
We like to draw parallels between ourselves and animals, perhaps because it makes us feel less alone. Is this dangerous? There are many articles and papers being written today about the …
Quote for Today: Stephen King
I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the …
Quote for Today: Jasper Johns
In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and party due to my feelings …
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 …
Inspiration and the Perfect Breath
Would you like to be more creative? How do we access the kind of inspiration that enhances and unlocks imagination? As I begin to write this first blog post, I …