Seeing Reynolds Price Through His Art Collection
Filling the well involves the active pursuit of images to refresh our artistic reservoirs. Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail. Art may seem to spring from pain, but perhaps that is because pain serves to focus our attention onto details (for instance, the excruciatingly beautiful curve of a lost lover’s neck). Art may seem to involve b
... See moreJulia Cameron • The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Great art reaches through the fog, toward this secret heart—and it shows it to you, holds it before you.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
“An individual heart-shock. Your dream, Welty’s dream, Vermeer’s dream. You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card at the museum gift shop sees something else entire, and that’s not even to mention the people separated from us by time—four hundred years before us, four hundre
... See moreDonna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
In my head, I imagine that when I’m dead, when I can no longer defend my records or explain them, the periodicals will stay forever, like they did in the reading room at the Philadelphia Main Library, and those reviews will become the final word on the things that I’ve created.