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Yo-Yo Ma Has 'Three Big Ideas' About The Future Of The Arts
1. Societies are powered by three engines: politics, economics and culture. A vibrant society exists when all three engines are firing and intersecting, resulting in a populace that is energized, engaged and fulfilled.
2. Our collective work in the arts is not just relevant, but essential to strengthening our culture and positively influencing society. Thus: “Art for Life’s Sake.”
3. The arts are the way to foster the four critical skills necessary for our children to succeed in the 21st-century workforce: collaboration, flexibility, imagination, innovation
Photography by Max Wanger
Max Wanger is one of my absolute favorite photographers right now. From commercial shoots to weddings to portraits to whatever-he-wants, his pictures are seriously magic to me. Apart from being visually compelling, they are really like memories, I think - sometimes fuzzy, sometimes clear, but always with this gist/essence/kernel of a truth, one that was and/or one that we tell ourselves. His work is romantic/whimsical, but also grounded (in a good way) by its knack for telling stories.
One of the most satisfying experiences I know- is just fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset… I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple in the cloud color” … I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds. It is this receptive, open attitude which is necessary to truly perceive something as it is.
Carl Rogers (via aconversationoncool)
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up for work.
Chuck Close
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Are artists difficult to work with?
I’m in love with artists. But I understand with everything that you love, you pay a price. You are dealing with somebody who is so confident in their own thoughts, they will show it to you and want to show it to the world, so they have to have a certain amount of confidence. But they are also just as extraordinarily insecure and self-deprecating, and that megalomania is coupled with an insane kind of self-loathing. They’re not stable people. You have to be crazy to believe your ideas are good enough to interrupt what everyone else is saying and doing. Maybe that’s just the artists I’m interested in—people who have ideas that break the mold. I’m not interested in artists who reinforce the status quo. I am interested in those who explore boundaries, and for that you need to be out of the stables. I believe we are entering a new Middle Ages where visual literacy is the main literacy because it’s faster, it’s more immediate, and it’s visceral; at the same time, there is a lack of vocabulary and lack of understanding of the power of images.
VICE, Blowing Covers with FRANÇOISE MOULY (via vvvvalentina)
I know this to be true.
Creativity is Subtraction – truth from Austin Kleon, part of his brilliant Newspaper Blackout project.
Sometimes you have to draw not what you see but what you know is there or what your feel is there.
Walt Stanchfield
