Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
Just don’t pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don’t. Stay open to them. It’s teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. …
Quote for Today: Rex Stout
The only difference between me and most people is that I’m perfectly aware that all my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just …
Quote for Today: Stanisław Lem
Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways …
Creating from Nightmare: H.R. Giger’s Biomechanics and Alien
The arts attempt to convey visions and concepts from one mind to another. Is there value in translating nightmare? A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, and …
Rooted in Loneliness: Thoughts on Ray Bradbury’s The Fog Horn
Art, like life, relies on communication. What happens when empathy fails and we are struck by how unintelligible we are? Sometimes it seems that the only thing we can share …
Quote for Today: Elias Canetti
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. —Elias Canetti
Quote for Today: René Magritte
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. ―René Magritte
Quote for Today: Tiffany Madison
That male military persona feeds a subconscious, passive-aggressive female desire to dominate the warrior as he is perceived an iconic example of masculinity (particularly amongst traditionally warlike cultures). The damsel …
The Organic Art of Rob Sato
Rob Sato is a watercolor artist based in Los Angeles who explores cycles of growth and decay in his work. This gallery at visualnews.com is truly astounding. Sato’s work features …
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 …