Search results for “The art of looking”
Why Our Partners Drive Us Mad: Alain de Botton to the Central Challenge of Human Relationships and How to Heal It
“We believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.”
An Artist’s Life Manifesto: Marina Abramović’s Rules of Life, Solitude, and Silence
“An artist should stay for long periods of time looking at the stars in the night sky.”
Walk Through Walls: Marina Abramović on Art, Fear, Taking Risks, and Pain as a Focal Lens for Presence
“Art must be life — it must belong to everybody.”
The Courage to Despair: Goethe, the Inner Tension of Creativity, and What It Takes to Be a Great Artist
“[The artist] must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.”
The New Better Off: Courtney Martin on Reimagining Our Ethos of Success and Reclaiming Our Sense of “Enough”
“That’s the thing about success… it’s only satisfying if it’s defined by you and influenced most deeply by the people you love and trust.”
Descartes on the Cure for Indecision
“There are no grounds for fear of the unknown: for often the things we most dreaded, before we experienced them, turn out to be better than those we desired.”
In the Company of Women: Wisdom and Advice on the Creative Life from Beloved Women Artists, Makers, and Entrepreneurs
Neko Case, Nikki Giovani, Tavi Gevinson, Maira Kalman, Debbie Millman, Carrie Brownstein, and more.
May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedbed of Self-Discovery
“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”
Eudora Welty on the Difficult Art of Seeing Each Other and the Power of Photography as a Dignifying Force
“If exposure is essential, still more so is the reflection. Insight doesn’t happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.”
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