While there is still time

This gave me goose pimples. How Did Hokusai Create The Great Wave?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEubj3c2How I ...

"The great Katsushika Hokusai was an artist, a Japanese one but ironically least like a typical Japanese artist. ...

"Adams raises the questions, “Is art a sufficient consolation for life? Can Beauty make suffering tolerable...

Beautiful video. The book sounds amazing too. "Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto (born 1957) trained as an oil painter before disco...

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake Raining, after the driest October in twenty years, citizens hustle across the street to t...

"Perhaps if people were encouraged to draw something everyday, they'd talk a lot less. They'd begin to ap...

I love poems that go with paintings. Not just on the wall— the writing’s on the sky, the river, the bridge, your hands. Wouldn’t you love...

Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, ...

"And the artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist must never be a prisoner of [one’s] self, prisoner of a style, prisoner ...

"I ride the NYC subway trains, usually in the evening when the seats are full. I focus on the shape of the space between the person si...

"Active from 1595 – 1610, Caravaggio was a major transitional figure in art moving from exaggerated Mannerism to a highly naturalistic...

"The more difficult our lives, the more a graceful depiction of a flower might move us. The tears — if they come — are in response not...

"I wake and sleep language. It has always been so. I had been brought up to memorise very long Bible passages, and...

"Perhaps if people were encouraged to draw something everyday, they'd talk a lot less. They'd begin to appreciate the importan...

" Suzuki rises from his chair and turns to the board. He picks up the chalk and draws a freehand oval, something like an eggshell in d...

“Drawing is anyway an exercise in orientation and as such may be compared with other processes of orientation which take place in nature. ...

"In the Louvre in Paris there is a Bathsheba painted by him (William Drost, Rembrandt's disciple) which...

"We value sensitive machines. We spend billions of pounds to make them more sensitive yet, so that they detect materials deep in the e...

 You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, s...

From 'The People of the Deer', Farley Mowat: "The Ihalmut do not fill canvasses with their paintings, or inscribe figures on...