Reads tagged with “art”
An Illustrated Love Letter to Rivers
A painted landscape of fact and feeling along the flow of existence.
Art and Aliveness: Willa Cather on Attention and the Life of the Senses as the Key to Creativity
“Art is a matter of enjoyment through the five senses. Unless you can see the beauty all around you everywhere, and enjoy it, you can never comprehend art.”
The Creative Urge: John Coltrane on Perseverance Against Rejection, the Innovator’s Mindset, and How Hardship Fuels Art
“Innovators always seek to revitalize, extend and reconstruct the status quo in their given fields… Quite often they are the rejects, outcasts, sub-citizens, etc. of the very societies to which they bring so much sustenance.”
Rilke on the Relationship Between Solitude, Love, Sex, and Creativity
“There is only one solitude, and it is large and not easy to bear… People are drawn to the easy and to the easiest side of the easy. But it is clear that we must hold ourselves to the difficult.”
Darling Baby: Artist Maira Kalman’s Painted Serenade to Attention, Aliveness, and the Vibrancy of Seeing the World with Newborn Eyes
“You will look at everything. And everything is really quite beautiful. Quite.”
Rocky Mountain Flowers: The Daring Life and Art of Pioneering Plant Ecologist Edith Clements
“There seems little doubt that the application of the principles of ecology to human affairs, whether personal, national or world-wide, would go far in solving the problems that beset us.”
From Coffee to Cacao to Clitoria: Luscious Antique Botanical Illustrations of the Most Vibrant Flora of the Americas
How the world relished the world before Instagram.
Perfect Flowers: Adventures in Nature’s Nonbinary Botany, with a Side of Emily Dickinson
Rewilding the landscape of possibility for the poetry of being.
The Other Great Gertrude-and-Alice Love Story: The Life and Legacy of Pioneering Photographer and Bicyclist Alice Austen
Quiet courage and improbable redemption under the sycamore tree.
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