Search results for “make good art”
Art and the Human Spirit: Olivia Laing on What the Lives of Great Artists Reveal About Vulnerability, Love, Loneliness, Resistance, and Our Search for Meaning
“We’re so often told that art can’t really change anything. But… it shapes our ethical landscapes; it opens us to the interior lives of others. It is a training ground for possibility. It makes plain inequalities, and it offers other ways of living.”
The Biggest Bluff: Control, Chance, and How the Psychology of Poker Illuminates the Art of Thriving Through Uncertainty
“That’s the thing about life: You can do what you do but in the end, some things remain stubbornly outside your control.”
The Lost Spells: A Rewilding of the Human Heart in a Lyrical Illustrated Invocation of Nature
From the owl to the oak, a painted benediction of the wild world.
John McPhee on Writing and the Relationship Between Artistic Originality and Self-Doubt
“Never stop battling for the survival of your own unique stamp.”
Drawing on Walls: An Illustrated Homage to Keith Haring, His Irrepressible Art of Hope, and His Beautiful Bond with Children
“Children know something that most people have forgotten. Children possess a fascination with their everyday existence that is very special and would be very helpful to adults if they could learn to understand and respect it.”
Being an Earth Ecstatic: Poet Diane Ackerman on the Spirituality of Wonder Without Religion
Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things.
Alain de Botton on Emotional Generosity and the Difficult, Largehearted Art of Charity of Interpretation
How to master a singular flavor of kindness we rarely afford others but always demand for ourselves.
Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche on Love, Perseverance, and the True Mark of Greatness
“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”
The Building Blocks of Moral Revolution: Jacqueline Novogratz on the Art of Accompaniment Along the Path to Justice and the Courage to Defy Cynicism in the Face of Staggering Requisite for Change
“Cynics might point to a system of governments, corporations, and technologies so broken that attempts to change it from the edges are futile. But cynics don’t build the future.”
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