Creativity begins with listening and noticing: What is moving me? What is touching my heart? The process of discovering what we love is about letting the world in—being open to see, feel, and experience it fully. Today, I learned that the great psychologist James Hillman has passed away. His words have always been a source…
“The artist has but one idea; he is born with it and spends a lifetime developing it and making it breathe.” —Henri Matisse Perhaps this isn’t just true for artists but for all of us. Maybe each of us carries a singular, lifelong idea—whether we’re fully conscious of it or not. It whispers to us…
In his book Evolution’s End, Joseph Chilton Pearce shares a profound insight into the nature of human intelligence. He recounts a story from 1932, when an American Indian medicine man told Carl Jung that white men were “insane” because they thought with their heads instead of their hearts. The medicine man described “whole people” as those…
Leonardo da Vinci’s outstanding merit is to have shown by his own example that the pursuit of beauty and the pursuit of truth are not incompatible.” – George Sarton Isn’t that such an inspiring thought? It makes you pause and think about how often we separate things that belong together. We box up beauty as…
My current muse is this painting by Tsuguhara Foujita (1886-1968), a Japanese artist who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western-style paintings. There’s something that’s really captivating about it…the simple lines and muted color make me want to go draw and paint. I love the girl’s expression and the cat is cute and hilarious. My photo…
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