Reads tagged with “interviews”

Pioneering Astronomer Vera Rubin on Women in Science, Dark Matter, and Our Never-Ending Quest to Know the Universe
“We’re still groping for the truth… Science consists of continually making better and better what has been usable in the past.”

‘Humans of New York’ Founder Brandon Stanton on Serial Obsessions, How to Build a Sensibility, the Dignity-Conferring Power of Listening, and the Value of Time
“The most valuable resource you have is what you do with your time.”

Trailblazing Astronomer Vera Rubin on Obsessiveness, Minimizing Obstacles, and How the Thrill of Accidental Discovery Redeems the Terror of Uncertainty
Why all creative endeavor is a matter of “getting hung up on little interesting things.”

I Work Like a Gardener: Joan Miró on Art, Motionless Movement, and the Proper Pace of Creative Labor
“Art can die; what matters is that it should have sown seeds on the earth… It must give birth to a world.”

Borges on Public Opinion, Literature vs. the Other Arts, and the True Measure of Success
“When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.”

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.”

Poet Sarah Kay on How We Measure Creative Success, Being a Working Artist in Today’s World, and the Only Antidote to Our Endemic Fear of Missing Out
…and a wonderful fable about the three different ways of relating to one’s work, each essential for the whole of art.

Alice Walker on What Her Father Taught Her About Lying and the Love-Expanding Capacity of Telling the Truth
Why telling the truth is a supreme act of love and the most powerful antidote to violence.

Janis Joplin on Music, Emotion, and the Courage to Be Yourself: A 1968 Conversation with Studs Terkel
“You gotta be able to act a little, feel a little, think a little.”

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