Reads tagged with “art”
Artist Anne Truitt on the Transcendent Sense of “Enough” and the Epiphany That Revealed to Her the Purpose of Art
“I saw myself stretched like brown earth in furrows, open to the sky, well planted, my life as a human being complete.”
The Poetics of Protest and Prayer: Mary Ruefle on the Different Powers of the Voice Raised and the Voice Lowered
“Cries and whispers. A bang or a whimper. Whatever the case, if we want to be heard, we must raise our voice, or lower it.”
How a Synesthete Experiences Bach: An Empathic Journey into Sound Through Minimalist Motion, Shape, and Color
An animated invitation to inhabit a rare neurological crossing of the senses.
Bruce Lee’s Never Before Revealed Letters to Himself About Authenticity, Personal Development, and the Measure of Success
“Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy… actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being.”
Audre Lorde on the Indivisibility of Identity and the Importance of Arts Education and Arts Funding
“The shortest statement of philosophy I have is my living, or the word ‘I.’”
Rebecca West on Storytelling as a Survival Mechanism and How Art Transforms Mere Existence into Meaningful Being
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.”
The Tragic Heroism of Hopefulness: The Myth of Sisyphus in a Gorgeous 1974 Oscar-Nominated Hungarian Animation
An evocative homage to one of humanity’s most human heroes by the great Hungarian graphic artist and animator Marcell Jankovics.
Beautiful Brain: The Stunning Drawings of Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal
“A graphic representation of the object observed guarantees the exactness of the observation itself.”
How to Know Everything About Everything: Laura Riding’s Extraordinary 1930 Letters to an 8-Year-Old Girl About Being Oneself
“People who for some reason find it impossible to think about themselves, and so really be themselves, try to make up for not thinking with doing.”
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