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Humans are Not Ants: The Need for Individuality
We like to draw parallels between ourselves and animals, perhaps because it makes us feel less alone. Is anthropomorphization dangerous? CCLI by voodoo@zjy on Flickr There are many articles and papers...
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Quote for Today: Michael Chabon
CC Licensed Image by Stefano Costanzo on Fotopedia Yet entertainment–as I define it, pleasure and all–remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as if we have bridged, the...
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Collaborations with the Self, Nature, and God: Sharon Strong’s Masks
CCLI by *Athey on deviant art Sharon Strong is a psychologist, a painter, a performance artist and a maker of masks who studied at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Sharon has worked as a...
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Quote for Today: Richard Bach
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can’t see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every...
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Quote for Today: Jean Arp
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life,...
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Quote for Today: Salvador Dalí
Babaouo by Manuel Cussó-Ferrer© Kamil Antosiewicz Monika Powalisz with CCLicense What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen...
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Quote for Today: Edward Albee
© thefoxling with CCLicense Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen. ― Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia...
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Quote for Today: Cole Swensen
…a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And sometimes a ghost is a shared thing; sometimes the entire population of a...
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Quote for Today: Robin McKinley
© WriterBarb with CCLicense The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do...
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Mud and Consciousness: The Works of Alexandra Engelfriet
© Oven Fresh with CCLicense Have you ever felt a rush of joy when digging in the dirt or splashing through mud? There is something very primal about soil and our relationship to it. Alexandra...
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Quote for Today: Rollo May
Berlin Wall Street ArtCreative Commons Licensed Image © Jean Cristophe Prunet Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as...
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Quote for Today: Isadora Duncan
CC Licensed Image © David Campbell Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps… The Dance is love, it...
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Quote for Today: Sheryl Lee
Le Vampire by Philip Burne-Jones I’ve always had a fascination with vampires. It’s not that I’m exactly fascinated with the dark side. It’s the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two...
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Quote for Today: D.H. Lawrence
© pieceofmestock with CCLicense It is easy to see why each man kills the things he loves. To know a living thing is to kill it… To try to know a living being is to try to suck the life out of that...
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Quote for Today: Kazuo Ishiguro
Fog Over Lambeth Bridge on the Thames © Paul Farmer with CCLicense Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. –Kazuo Ishiguro
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Quote for Today: Terry Tempest Williams
© svenwerk with CCLicense “Once you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.” ―Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds:...
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Quote for Today: Paul Auster
© Kevin Dooley with CCLicense It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him, and it is not necessarily his own. It speaks to him in the way a...
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Quote for Today: Vincent van Gogh
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent van Gogh van Gogh, Starry Night over the Rhône
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Quote for Today: Peter Ackroyd
© Chris Vreeland with CCLicense No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join...
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The Organic Art of Rob Sato
Rob Sato show at Giant Robot GR2, Los Angeles© Ribbon Controller with CCLicense Rob Sato is a watercolor artist based in Los Angeles who explores cycles of growth and decay in his work. This gallery at...
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