Art spirit
On the occasion of the luminary Audre Lorde’s birthday, read excerpts of dialogue from the documentary film, “A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde” (Third World Newsreel, 1995), by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson, featuring the voices of Lorde, Sonia Sanchez, Sapphire, and others from our Summer 1996 issue. The reflections... See more
bombmaginstagram.comEmbrace Muddles // Brian Eno
🟠 You don’t need a perfect plan—just the willingness to start.
🟠 Most great work is improvised, not orchestrated.
🟠 Creativity often begins as chaos—then takes shape as you go.
Clarity comes after creation, not before. You don’t need... See more
contemporary.blueprintinstagram.comMy neighbor, a very prolific artist, on what he’s learned about creativity over the last sixty years.
If you work hard, you get into a good circle, where the more you make, the more you can do, and the more ideas comes to you. And conversely, if you're away from it, it’s very hard to get... See more
Henrik Karlssonsubstack.com
Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses—especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. — Leonardo da Vinci
I don’t think anyone owns the meaning of art. Just as no one owns the meaning of life.
Both painting and poetry are interested in the image. They get there in different ways. One moves in time (beginning/end) and one moves in space (up/down/left/right). The two mediums are independent, not interdependent. I don’t think they even overlap. Illustrating a poem erases its mystery. Using text in painting (unless it’s just a visual... See more