“Like the clay that has been recycled and reclaimed, our lives have the capacity for change spiritually.”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“I want to guide you on this creative journey to see how our creativity is Spiritually rooted in God. It is a God-given skill that we all can use to praise and glorify Him.”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“Inks don’t forget. But with enough coaxing, occasionally they can be persuaded to forgive.”
Source: Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun
“This is what art is for. It is our only chance to listen to the voices of the dead and more than that it allows them to touch us, and it allows us, the living, to learn from them.”
Source: Signal to Noise
“When Art and Music meet together, they give rise to euphony.”
“She and Kate had wanted to see the things everyone else saw, too, but with their own eyes. That was how art, how anything, became immortal. Becoming a still point in the universe, around which endless bodies revolved.”
Source: End of the World House
“Why had she ever wanted to come here? To see art. To see someone else’s inspiration, but in its worst, its least natural form. The point being not that it was beautiful, but that it was chosen.”
Source: End of the World House
“By establishing a shared system of collective experiences and symbolic meanings, ritual helped to coordinate thought and memory, allowing a group of humans to function as a single organism. And because of its close connection to symbolism, rhythm and movement, as well as its role in demarcating the extraordinary from the ordinary, ritual has also been linked to the evolution of art.”
Source: Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
“« On a survécu au whitewashing, aux blackface, aux tonnes de rôles de dealers, de femmes de ménage, aux rôles de terroristes ou de filles hyper sexualisées, et on ne va pas laisser le cinéma français tranquille »
–Cérémonie 2020 des César”
“Barring performance art, society tends to understand artwork as the static end product of a creative process. As terminal object, relic. As artefact. Objects to which we come in temporal reverse. I am most interested in artwork as creative process. In the dynamics that occur before, and up to, any final outcome.”