Reads tagged with “art”
Baudelaire on the Political and Humanitarian Power of Art: An Open Letter to Those in Power and of Privilege
“Art is an infinitely precious possession, a refreshing and warming drink that restores the stomach and the mind to the natural balance of the ideal.”
Wave: A Most Unusual Coloring Book by English Artist Shantell Martin, Inspired by Life in Japan
An illustrated ode to the art of affectionate surrender to the ebb and flow of existence.
Rosanne Cash on Creative Heritage, the Bravery of Befriending Our Roots, and What Her Father, Johnny Cash, Taught Her About Artistic Integrity
“Like everything else, given enough time and the long perspective, the opposite of those things that we think define us slowly becomes equally valid and sometimes more potent.”
Susan Sontag on How Photography Mediates Our Relationship with Life and Death
“We no longer study the art of dying, a regular discipline and hygiene in older cultures; but all eyes, at rest, contain that knowledge. The body knows. And the camera shows, inexorably.”
The Effortless Effort of Creativity: Jane Hirshfield on Storytelling, the Art of Concentration, and Difficulty as a Consecrating Force of Creative Attention
“In the wholeheartedness of concentration, world and self begin to cohere. With that state comes an enlarging: of what may be known, what may be felt, what may be done.”
The Wolves of Currumpaw: The Illustrated True Story of the Tragic and Redemptive Fate of Wolves in North America
“Each of our native wild creatures is in itself a precious heritage that we have no right to destroy or put beyond the reach of our children.”
Blake, Beethoven, and the Tragic Genius of Outsiderdom
“It is the mark of a genius like Blake … that what is purest and most consistent in his thought burns away his own suffering and fanaticism, while his art speaks to what is most deeply human in us.”
Schopenhauer on the Essential Difference Between How Art and Science Reveal the World
“[Science] is like the innumerable showering drops of the waterfall, which, constantly changing, never rest for an instant; [art] is like the rainbow, quietly resting on this raging torrent.”
Chelsea Clinton Reads James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Role in Society
“The war of an artist with his society is a lover’s war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.”
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