“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
—Thomas Merton
October 2012
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August 2012
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June 2012
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“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.”
—Pablo Picasso
April 2012
3 posts
“You must write and read as if your life depended on it.”
—Adrienne Rich
March 2012
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February 2012
3 posts
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct—acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
—Carl Jung
January 2012
3 posts
“We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence…”
—Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
December 2011
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“Art is the imposing of pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
—Alfred North Whitehead
“Illusions are art for the feeling person. And it is by art that you live, if you do.”
—Elizabeth Bowen
“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.”
—Edmond de Goncourt
