Sublime

For one artist, her Little Monster dream came true. Twenty-year-old Helen Green from England had been posting renderings of Gaga on her Littlemonsters.com profile for five months. One particular drawing was of a poster for a fictional Disney movie called Born This Way, with Gaga drawn as a princess with her paw up. Gaga saw the drawing and tweeted

In the mid-1490s Leonardo put aside his work on anatomy; he would not return to the subject for another decade. Although he was neither fully original nor correct in his description of a senso comune, he was right in his general view that the human brain receives visual and other stimuli, processes them into perceptions, then transmits reactions th

Tell us, Amanda, can you explain this relationship you have with your fans?

Artist and choreographer Martha Graham put it this way: “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”

All movements come out of emptiness. The mind is the name given to this dynamic aspect of emptiness and emptiness is sincerity so there is no crookedness, no ego-centered motivation, only genuineness and straightforwardness which allows nothing between itself and its movements.

In his book On the Shadow of Ideas, published in 1582, Bruno promised that his art “will help not only the memory but also all the powers of the soul.”