Reads tagged with “art”
James Baldwin on the Artist’s Struggle for Integrity and How It Illuminates the Universal Experience of What It Means to Be Human
“The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets.”
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.”
The White Cat and the Monk: A Lovely 9th-Century Ode to the Joy of Uncompetitive Purposefulness, Newly Illustrated
A wonderful counterpoint to our culture of competitive self-comparison, reminding us that we can choose to amplify each other’s accomplishments because there is, after all, enough to go around.
Sculpting in Time: Legendary Russian Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky on Why Film Enchants Us and What a Great Director Should Aim to Do
“What a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: time lost or spent or not yet had.”
Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
Feathers: A Stunning Photographic Love Letter to Evolution’s Masterpiece and Its Astonishing Array of Beauty
Art meets science in a poetic celebration of Earth’s astonishing diversity.
A Loving Illustrated Homage to Virginia Woolf’s Remarkable Life and Legacy
“I will not be ‘famous,’ ‘great.’ I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped.”
Spiderwoman’s Cloth Lullaby: The Illustrated Life of Artist Louise Bourgeois
A loving homage to one of the most extraordinary women in the history of creative culture.
The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin’s Children Left All Over the Manuscript of ‘On the Origin of Species’
From fish with legs to carrot cavalries, an endearing testament to the human life of science.
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