Isamu Noguchi, the celebrated Japanese American artist and landscape designer, 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 awakening.” This idea—that creativity stems not from art itself but…
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…
There are so many gems of wisdom in Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit that it’s hard to choose just one to share. (If you flipped through my copy, you’d see “wow,” “cool,” and “neat” scribbled in red letters in the margins of practically every page.) But perhaps the most profound insight is this: creating art…
My friend Elka Vera recently completed a series of stunning watercolor paintings. Her focus? Capturing the essence of a flower rather than its form. The results are beautiful, as you can see. I love the idea of focusing on the essence of a thing. It’s a concept that resonates deeply with me, especially as I’ve…
I’ve been feeling a little nervous lately. For the past year, I’ve been holding a vision close to my heart, and now it’s time to step forward and act on it. Gulp. When we hold a vision, there’s always that moment of hesitation—the quiet fear of the unknown. But today, I saw the movie A…
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