Time enough at last
The other day, I picked up my copy of Art & Fear and started reading at a random page. It’s one of those books where […]
solitude
Birds on a rooftop
“Complete isolation — that is what the Outsider is driving at. He knows that, if he could only achieve it, there is a completely different […]
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 […]
Significant moments
“The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in the universe through what he creates. […]
Subjective fulfilment in the world
The subjective can be so over-emphasized that the individual’s inner world becomes entirely divorced from reality. In that case we call him mad. On the […]
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, […]
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 […]
