Quote for Today: James Herriot
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ―James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small
Quote for Today: Robert Penn Warren
…the train goes fast and is going fast when it crosses a little trestle. You catch the sober, metallic, pure, late-light, unriffled glint of the water between the little banks, …
Quote for Today: T.S. Eliot
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those …
Quote for Today: Pablo Picasso
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Culver
Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefs shattered. It is the artists job to encourage …
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: Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who …
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 …
Finding Creativity in the Community
Sometimes we sit alone and wait for inspiration, never realizing that it is bubbling up all around and within us. A long time ago, there was a land called “Wells,” …
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 …