“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Art – Van Gogh, A Lane near Arles, 1888.
Show your soul
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Category Archives: Art and words
Words
I love words.
I cherish idioms, jargon, vernacular language. The most I love is Pan’s Labyrinth or treasure trove of word-work. Which firstly blind-numbs my eyes and mind. Then I have the eyesight of Argus and my mind channels the hands of Vulcan.
Art by Andrea Kowch.
Music
“I got a little game that I play when it goes really hard, I just start dreaming and all becomes music.”
– Selma Jezková
Art by Julia Lillard.
Time
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
Heraclitus
Art by Joshua Flint.
The hardest questions
If you were an artist, how would you promote your art?
1. Hire a pen to spin a good yarn for https://hyperallergic.com/.
2. Speak to your art crowd and lure them to the place of your own creation, your Legendary Land.
Art by Wilhelm Kotarbiński – 1900.
Light …
“But also I say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.”
– Mary Oliver
Art – Gustav Klimt – The Swamp
Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
“May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.”
– Delmore Schwartz
Art – Henri Matisse, View of Notre-Dame, 1914
Wholesome
“A little madness in the spring is wholesome,”
– Emily Dickinson
Art by Charles Caryl Coleman.
Dream
“You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.”
– Gregory Peck
Art by Brad Kunkle.
Women Who Run With the Wolves
“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories from your life–not someone else’s life–water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés – Women Who Run With the Wolves
Photography art – Femme Victorienne avec Loup
