From the artist Corita Kent’s book, Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit: “A tremendously constricting force on our contemporary society is the concept of the professional or specialist, who deals for the most part with what has already been done and builds on his own limits. To the extent we can approach…
A friend took this photo of a pomegranate on the tree in front of my house. It had been looking sad and neglected—for some reason it had never ripened, so I let it sit there while in the meantime, the rest of the fruit was picked and the tree lost all its leaves for the…
My new fave art book is Picturing and Poeting by noted graphic designer Alan Fletcher. British writer Fiona MacCarthy wrote something interesting in her forward to the book. She describes the “moment of crystallization when an idea changes state. The point at which the word transforms itself to make a picture. The stage at which…
Everything in art that is profound and fundamentally important cannot be described. -Milton Glaser, Drawing is Thinking
Isamu Noguchi, the prominent Japanese American artist and landscape designer (among other large projects, he designed the Unesco Gardens in Paris) once described the creative act as a process of awakening: “I don’t think art comes from art…I think it comes from the awakening person. Awakening is what you might call the spiritual…Everything tends toward…
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