It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason.
To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.
Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.
Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and 'The New York Tyrant' and 'n+1' will be responsible for keeping it alive.
Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.
Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we've lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost.