Parking lot pigeons
“If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it’s trust. […]
creativity
A crack in everything
“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life […]
Parking garage
*** “People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, […]
To find their way to art, which is their consolation
“Paradoxically, photographers must also face the threat that their vision may one day be denied them. Their capacity to find their way to art, which […]
They made their language. You make yours.
Quotes from The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri: “The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to […]
Approved taste
“One of the great difficulties of an art student is to decide between his own natural impressions and what he thinks should be his impressions. […]
Let us learn to play
“Freud was right in linking play and phantasy, but he was surely wrong in believing that play and phantasy should be abandoned in favour of […]
The need to link the real and the ideal
We are all deprived; we are all disappointed; and therefore we are all, in some sense idealists. The need to link the real and the […]
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship
“… it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. […] Today the individual has become […]
Lines of no consequence
I’ve never listened to Nick Cave’s music. But I will get around to it. I recently randomly discovered his blog, The Red Hand Files. Here […]
Tyranny of the human face
I’ve recently been reading Baudelaire. The idea of redemption through one’s art in his prose poem “At One O’Clock in the Morning” resonated with me, […]
Raw material for the artist
“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have […]
Whatever I see, I see
“Whatever I see, I see. I try to see it like myself and not like I’ve been told to see it, or how I should […]
Arrive at a world
“I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock… The cause of this shock may be a tiny thread sticking out of the canvas, […]
Familiar Landscapes, New Eyes
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. —Marcel Proust Although my next issue of Qualia will […]
Ingmar Bergman and Solitude
I just stumbled upon a good article about the importance of solitude in creativity. At least for me, I know that solitude is of the […]