Picturing Wildness: The Beasts of Henri Rousseau
Artists are often told to work from experience, to relate what we know. There is more to knowledge and experience than physical reality, however. When it comes to inspiration, the …
Quote for Today: Ethan Hawke
If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have …
Deciphering the Dream: Robert Altman’s 3 Women
Dreams allow symbols, objects and personalities to form fluid associations. Can their suspension of reality help us understand our lives? Robert Altman was having a terrible day. He had argued …
Quote for Today: Joseph Campbell
The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities …
Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. ―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Quote for Today: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance …
Quote for Today: Rollo May
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it …
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 …