To Sua Ocean Trench @ Samoa
40 Books That Every Artist Should Own Part 1
1000reasonsnottostartmakingart:
I think I’ve thought about buying one of these books, but then again, I’m not an artist.
Jippie, an instant wish list; I actually own three of these books:
“Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation” by E.H. Gombrich, Princeton University Press
“Seven Days in the Art World” by Sarah Thornton, W. W. Norton & Company
“The Lives of the Artists” Giorgio Vasari, Oxford University Press
And Alexis I think you’d LOVE 7 days in the art world!
I got on the bus before the heaviest rains came. Folding in my umbrella I could feel droplets of water leap from its slick surface. “What a lousy day,” I said to the driver.
Who promptly responded, “At least we’re here to see it.”
Rune Guneriussen, a charged meadow
Memory and dream are intermixed in this mad universe.
—Jack Kerouac, Doctor Sax (via fallenidol)
(via farewell-kingdom)
Japanese Gardens @ Portland
(via mortisia)
Even after all this time, the Sun never says to the Earth “You owe me”. Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.
- Hafiz, a persian poet of the 1300
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother’s love is not.
—James Joyce (via thebronzemedal)
Fall seven times, stand up eight - Japanese proverb.
