"It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own work. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness."
— Julian Schnabel
Instructive article on the hazards of contemporary indie publishing for its emerging authors, focusing on Curbside Splendor and its owner, Victor Giron:
https://t.co/8QlUBC043S
Czech to English:
tajnůstkář: a secretive person
Věra Linhartová: “My sympathies lie with the nomads, I haven’t the soul of a sedentary myself. So I am now entitled to say that my own exile has fulfilled what was always my dearest wish: to live elsewhere.”
"I then carried on playing with the sculpture a bit. In the process, I took photographs of what I was doing, as I often do, because I find that if I photograph the work I can see it with a fresh eye." —Ron Mueck https://t.co/M5XOHduhEt
In this interview with painter Paula Rego, https://t.co/cIj3U5GxWc she touches on influences by Goya, James Ensor, and her son-in-law, artist Ron Mueck.
"An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest or late seral forest — is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a 'climax community'." — Wikipedia
I just read this great article and interview featuring my favourite sculptor, Tony Cragg.
Interview with Tony Cragg by Alexia Antsakli Vardinoyanni:
https://t.co/Cg6Lgfk5nZ