Reads tagged with “art”
The Hum of the Universe: Shonda Rhimes on Creative Burnout, the Hamster Wheel of Success, and Reclaiming Who We Are from the Workaholic Grip of What We Do
“If the song of my heart ceases to play, can I survive in the silence?”
Art as Experience: John Dewey on Why the Rhythmic Highs and Lows of Life Are Essential to Its Creative Completeness
“In life that is truly life, everything overlaps and merges.”
Strung Out In Heaven: Amanda Palmer on Patronage vs. Commerce, Art as Non-Ownable Nourishment, and the Story Behind Her Bowie String Quartet Tribute
“People don’t trust you without getting to know you and watching you work and seeing you make good on your word.”
The MoMA Cookbook: Vintage Recipes and Reflections on Food by Salvador Dalí, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, and Other Great Artists
From Dalí’s red salad to Warhol’s cream of tomato soup.
Frida Kahlo on How Love Amplifies Beauty: Her Breathtaking Tribute to Diego Rivera
“I do not think that the banks of a river suffer because they let the river flow.”
Lou Andreas-Salomé, the World’s First Woman Psychoanalyst, on Creativity and the Relationship Between the Mind and the Body, in Letters to Rilke
“All art begins [as] a calling forth of life in its still concealed mysteriousness.”
Physicist and Writer Alan Lightman on the Shared Psychology of Creative Breakthrough in Art and Science
An exquisite account of those moments that feel “like a great hand has suddenly grabbed hold and flung you across the surface like a skimming stone.”
How Arthur Rackham’s 1907 Drawings for Alice in Wonderland Revolutionized the Carroll Classic, the Technology of Book Art, and the Economics of Illustration
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
How Aubrey Beardsley’s Visionary Illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” Subverted Victorian Gender Norms and Revolutionized the Graphic Arts
“He is drawing not persons but personages; he is dramatizing not the relationships between personalities but the pure, geometric essence of relationship.”
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