Jan 18
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In Outtakes
Jan 10
“Give me the streets of New York”—Walt Whitman
Make it here
Make it anywhere
People swear
I’m in a New York state of mind—Billy Joel
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”—Leonard Cohen
Stardust haze
Colors ricochet
Prisms smash
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass—Anton Chekhov
Dec 23
“Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others’, mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what’s in her basket”—Elizabeth Berg
Smart baskets
Picnic in Paris
On their bikes
Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family—Sister Parish
Dec 9
“We feel the chill north winds coarse through the home despite the locked and bolted doors… this is winter, which nonetheless brings its own delight” —Antonio Vivaldi, the Sonnets*
Cutting edge
Ornately Baroque
Artistry
We tread the icy path slowly and cautiously,
for fear of tripping and falling.
Then turn abruptly, slip, crash on the ground,
And rising, hasten on across the ice in case it cracks
—Antonio Vivaldi, the Sonnets*
Dec 6
“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.” —Grant Wood
Backstory
Gothic revival
A paint job
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow—Grant Wood
Nov 30
“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums”—Salvador Dali
Dream vision
Inverts perception
Surreally
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams—Salvador Dali
Nov 20
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”—Plutarch
What sense peers
Into the darkness
Hears a light
Why should poetry have to make sense?—Charlie Chaplin
Nov 15
“In art, the obvious is a sin”—Edward Dmytryk
For our sins
Divine comedy
Is no joke
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence—Alice Walker
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Oct 29
“There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write”—Terry Pratchett
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