Artful thinking
On living openly
Artful thinking
One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience. There are always areas of vast silence in any culture, and part of an artist’s job is to go into those areas and come back from the silence with something to say. It’s one reason why we read poetry, because poets can give us the words we need. When we read good po... See more
The trick is to metabolize pain as energy. Learn, when hit by loss, to ask the right question: "What next?" instead of "Why me?
The Artist's Way Quotes by Julia Cameron
Artists excel at creating worlds. They do this first for themselves and then, when they share their work, for others. Of course, world-building means creating everything—not only making things inside the world but also the surrounding world itself—the language, style, rules, and architecture.
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
New discoveries often have to be conceived initially as variations of existing things,
even by their discoverers
, because there isn't yet the conceptual vocabulary to express them.
even by their discoverers
, because there isn't yet the conceptual vocabulary to express them.
How to Do Great Work
"the gradual + slow build of something beautiful and substantial interests me more than suddenly giving into what feels convenient or pleasurable in one slice of a moment in time" https://t.co/SyooBOYZ4p
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
i’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
—ee cummings
I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously crea... See more
To sit alone without any electric light is curiously crea... See more
Jeanette Winterson • Why I Adore the Night, by Jeanette Winterson
Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?