Hildegard of Bingen on singing
There is the Music of Heaven in all things and we have forgotten how to hear it until we sing. –Hildegard of Bingen
Inspiration
Being in the State Which Makes Art Inevitable
From my favorite book, The Art Spirit by Robert Henri: …we must get rid of this outside feeling of looking in on art. We must get on the inside and press out. Art is simply a result of expression during right feeling. It’s a result of a grip on the fundamentals of nature, the spirit…
We are seeking something that doesn’t come by itself.
Last Friday January 23rd, the French painter and art teacher Paul Reynard died in his New York home. He wasn’t particularly well known for his art in the United States (in fact I couldn’t find any images of his paintings on the Internet.) However, I loved something he once said about the creative process: “…there…
Waiting at the abyss
Nearly everyone I know right now seems to be “waiting.” We’re waiting for our new president to take office of course. We’re also waiting for congress to make decisions about economic recovery packages and greenhouse gases and overseas wars. That list seems endless. But I’m doing another level of waiting. Robert Romanyshyn called it “waiting…
Robert Henri’s “Art Spirit” Part Two
There are so many bits of wisdom in Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit that it’s hard to know what to share. (I have “wow” and “cool” and “neat” written in red letters in the margins of just about every page…) But perhaps this is the most important thing–Robert Henri talks about creating art as the…
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