
Internal combustion
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something […]
We find ourselves on different sides Of a line nobody drew Though it all may be one in the higher eye Down here where we […]
“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of […]
“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle […]
“Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent […]
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where […]
Something to read from something I am reading: “It is a longing for the heroic, for a greater seriousness of life than ordinary human beings […]
“It’s very spiritual because you’re suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything — left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It’s […]
“Complete isolation — that is what the Outsider is driving at. He knows that, if he could only achieve it, there is a completely different […]
To me, one way of looking at this odd building is as some strange creature peering out over the makeshift wooden fence. It’s not threatening […]
Recently I’ve been thinking about John Szarkowski‘s idea of photographs as either windows or mirrors. It’s interesting to think of one’s own work and the […]
Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that […]
“The real study of an art student is more of a development of that sensitive nature and appreciative imagination with which he was so fully […]
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 […]
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