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: Anton Chekhov
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that …
Quote for Today: Lloyd Douglas
For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple–not because the tree …
A Testament to Motion: The Art of Toots Zynsky
Have you ever created something that made you feel more alive? Amazing things can happen when we follow our passion. Delizioso, Image © Dane Gallery Mary Ann Toots …
Quote for Today: Louise Erdrich
I love plants. For the longest time I thought that they died without pain. But of course after I had argued with Mary she showed me clippings on how plants …
Quote for Today: Signe Pike
I wanted to find something of the beauty of myth that we’ve left behind, carry its shreds before us all, so we could acknowledge it, somehow bring it back to …
Quote for Today: Kahlil Gibran
All these things have you said of beauty. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It …
Quote for Today: Edward W. Said
No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on …
Quote for Today: Muhammad Ali
Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe. ―Muhammad Ali
Quote for Today: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. ―Ralph Waldo Emerson