Expanding Connections: Please Touch the Art
As artists, sometimes we assume that we understand our creations. Connecting with an audience shows us the things we miss. Andrew Myers makes clever paintings by screwing screws into a …
Quote for Today: Cecelia Ahern
Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they’ve been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes we lose sight of ourselves …
Quote for Today: Julie Andrews
Early one beautiful summer evening, when everyone else was drinking indoors, Tony and I walked down to the river. We lay on the grass under a tree and chatted. At …
Quote for Today: Brian Eno
When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When …
Quote for Today: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things. ―Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Image: Archers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1935-37
Quote for Today: Paulo Coelho
“You don’t seem mad at all,” she said. But I am, although I’m undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I …
Quote for Today: H. R. Ellis Davidson
The mythology of a people is far more than a collection of pretty or terrifying fables to be retold in carefully bowdlerized form to our schoolchildren. It is the comment …
Two Views from a Cage: Adjoining Cells by Katherine McDaniel
When two people settle into a pattern of behavior it becomes increasingly difficult to change habits. In some cases, it may be that those very habits are all that connect us. For some …
Quote for Today: P.S. Baber
You can never really escape. It goes with you, wherever you go. Somehow, the prairie dust gets in your blood, and it flows through your veins until it becomes …
Quote for Today: Martha Graham
Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward. ―Martha …