When I teach writing classes, people often ask me for tips on how to be more disciplined and productive. My response to them is always the opposite. I don’t believe that creativity can be forced. Rather, it needs to be “fed.” When you take care of yourself, treating yourself to whatever makes you feel warm…
Yet why should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Why does it give us pleasure? Because, I believe, it increases our awareness of our own potentiality…a way of looking at the world implies a certain relationship with the world, and every relationship implies action…A valid work of art…
One of my favorite art quotes is from Pauline Kael, the American film critic who was known for her witty movie reviews: “Art doesn’t come in measured quantities: it’s got to be too much or it’s not enough.” I always think of this quote when I see flowers blooming in the spring. They don’t hold…
In a class I taught last fall, I posed the question, “What inspires you?” The following is what the students came up with. I’ve had it taped to my office wall ever since. In my opinion, inspiration is what life is all about. Lucky for us, it comes in many forms.
I discovered my mother’s final project for her Textile and Clothing class. She got a B on the project, even though it looks like many of the drawings are hand-drawn and she even hand-painted some of the images. There are so many gems in this notebook that it was hard to choose what to post….
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