Reads tagged with “art”
Blue Floats Away: A Tender Illustrated Fable About Our Capacity for Change, Told Through the Story of Water
In praise of our unfathomed capacity to experience beautiful new things beyond our habitual ideas of the possible.
How to Feel More Alive Each Day and Night: A Cosmic Nightwalk with Derek Jarman
“Here man has invented the heavens but the moon, not to be usurped, shines sickle bright, gathering our souls.”
Bob Dylan on Vulnerability, the Meaning of Integrity, and Music as an Instrument of Truth
“You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose.”
Rocky Mountain Flowers: The Daring Life and Art of Pioneering Plant Ecologist Edith Clements
“There seems little doubt that the application of the principles of ecology to human affairs, whether personal, national or world-wide, would go far in solving the problems that beset us.”
From Cacao to Clitoria: Luscious 19th-Century French Botanical Illustrations of the Most Vibrant Flora of the Americas
How the world relished the world before Instagram.
The Blue Horses of Our Destiny: Artist Franz Marc, the Wisdom of Animals, and the Fight of Beauty Against Brutality
Tragedy and transcendence in the search for the spiritual in nature.
How (Not) to Be a Writer: Chekhov on Why the Task of Art Is Not to Solve Problems But to Formulate Questions
“Anyone who says that the artist’s sphere leaves no room for questions, but deals exclusively with answers, has never done any writing or done anything with imagery.”
An Illustrated Love Letter to Rivers
A painted landscape of fact and feeling along the flow of existence.
Art and Aliveness: Willa Cather on Attention and the Life of the Senses as the Key to Creativity
“Art is a matter of enjoyment through the five senses. Unless you can see the beauty all around you everywhere, and enjoy it, you can never comprehend art.”
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