Search results for “the creative spark”
Virginia Woolf on Why She Became a Writer and the Shock-Receiving Capacity Necessary for Being an Artist
“Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern… the whole world is a work of art… there is no Shakespeare… no Beethoven… no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”
The Most Beautiful Illustrations from 200 Years of Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Maurice Sendak, Lisbeth Zwerger, Edward Gorey, David Hockney, Wanda Gág, Shaun Tan, and more.
Where Children Play: Photographs of Playgrounds Around the World
From Bolivia to Bhutan, a visual ethnography of childhood experiences.
MoMA Acquires the Rainbow Flag as a Design Icon: A Conversation with the Artist Who Made It
“Flags are soaring symbols of pride and community, as well as emotional, incendiary sparks for those on the other side of the barricade. They are among the most immediate, primal, and communicative forms of design.”
An Adventure in Paris with Pussy and Lovey: Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein Become Babysitters
A positively pleasing illustrated take on a true story.
Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism
“Leisure lives on affirmation. It is not the same as the absence of activity … or even as an inner quiet. It is rather like the stillness in the conversation of lovers, which is fed by their oneness.”
Musicked Down the Mountain: How Oliver Sacks Saved His Own Life by Literature and Song
The extraordinary survival story of “a creature of muscle, motion and music, all inseparable and in unison with each other.”
Emerson on What Beauty Really Means, How to Cultivate Its True Hallmarks, and Why It Bewitches the Human Imagination
“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”
The Encounter: How Young Vladimir Nabokov Met the Love of His Life and Won Her Heart with a Poem
“Longing, and mystery, and delight…”
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