Search results for “the art of asking”
Amanda Palmer on Art, Love, Loneliness, Motherhood, Vulnerability, Trust, and Our Lifelong Quest to Feel Real
“Maybe we’ve constructed culture in a way that people are not feeling recognized, loved, accepted, happy with their place in society.”
Strung Out In Heaven: Amanda Palmer on Patronage vs. Commerce, Art as Non-Ownable Nourishment, and the Story Behind Her Bowie String Quartet Tribute
“People don’t trust you without getting to know you and watching you work and seeing you make good on your word.”
Why We Write About Ourselves: Some of Today’s Most Celebrated Writers on the Art of Telling Personal Stories That Unravel Universal Truth
“Making art is all about humans and our psychology: who we are, how we behave, what we do with the hand we’ve been dealt. It’s closer to your own bone when it’s a memoir, but the bone is still the bone.”
Charles M. Schulz, Civil Rights, and the Previously Unseen Art of Peanuts
“My husband and I keep pertinent Peanuts cartoons on desks and bulletin boards as guards against pomposity.”
Physicist Lisa Randall on the Sublime and the Crucial Differences Between How Art, Science, and Religion Explain the Universe
“The universe is humbling. Nature hides many of its most interesting mysteries.”
Becoming Wise: Krista Tippett on Love and Mastering the Art of Living
“If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means… what it looks like as a private good but also as a common good.”
How Arthur Rackham’s 1907 Drawings for Alice in Wonderland Revolutionized the Carroll Classic, the Technology of Book Art, and the Economics of Illustration
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Margaret Mead’s Beautiful Letter of Advice to Her Younger Sister on Starting a Family in an Uncertain World
In praise of “living more intensely and doing better work” whatever life may throw your way.
The Art of Not-Having-to-Ask, from Buddhist Monks to Amanda Palmer by Way of Thoreau
How to unlearn everything our transactionalist culture has taught us about “the market” and relearn our natural open-handed generosity.
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