Art in Containers

What happens when we put our art in containers? Exploring the relationship between structure and spirit.

Kaskie: We are not trying to be everything to everybody. We’re trying to be something to someone.

Dan Kois • The Oral History of Pitchfork, From the Careers It Made to the Bands It Killed

"My being an artist is not a question of being able to make artwork. It is a question of my willingness to make something imperfect, or ugly, and how much resilience I have to face that reality repeatedly."

— Anna Fusco

One of the best ways I’ve found to organize one’s thoughts about a huge swath of intellectual and creative space, is to write a syllabus

"Don’t you think they’re maybe the same thing. Love, and attention?"
— Lady Bird

"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."

~ Picasso

Poetic Outlaws • Tweet

The amateur's fear eclipses her compassion for others and for herself.

Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro

"Art happens between you and something—a subject, an idea, a technique—and both you and that something need to be free to move." — David Bayles & Ted Orland, Art and Fear