January 2010
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“Perhaps home is not a place, but simply an irrevocable condition.”
– Thanks again to Mike Mergen for passing along this piece of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.
“Absence has a way of being there.”
– Michael Gizzi from his poem Dear double jehovah, with a tip of the hat to Tim Davis for suggesting Michael Gizzi during his visit to RISD this fall, and to Mike Mergen for uncovering this gem and passing it along to me.
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“In the most compelling portraits there is often a collision of wills, an...”
– Sylvia Wolf, Director of the Henry Art Center at U. Washington in conjunction with a portraiture show
“I couldn’t get any of this feeling without a strong connection for a...”
– Andrew Wyeth, in connection with his exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum; I saw it on my visit back in August and just ran across this quote again where I’d jotted it down.
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“Really, I think one’s art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes....”
– Also Andrew Wyeth
“Don’t ever let anyone talk you out of physical splendor”
– Frederick Sommer to Emmet Gowin in Gowin’s Changing the Earth (New Haven, CT: YU Art Gallery, 2002), 136.
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“We all have to belong to something, if only to the idea that we should not...”
– Wendell Berry as reprinted in Gregory Spaid, Grace (New London, NH: Safe Harbor, 2000), third paragraph.
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“It’s easy to see today how students don’t go to school to learn but...”
– Piero Golia as quoted in Steven Henry Madoff, ed. Art School: Propositions for the 21st Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009), 322.
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Currently on the list of desired reading:
Thomas Wolfe’s “Return” on his return to hometown Asheville, NC—originally published back on May 16th of 1937 in the Asheville Citizen-Times. So far no luck locating it.