(Image: Reading at a table. Oil on Canvas, Picasso 1934) Reading is the thing I’ve always preferred over any other occupation and often with a sense of guilt, so it was a delight to read that Ursula K. Le Guin in her book “The Wave in the Mind” believes that reading is art! Le Guin […]
Lots of people say they’re not creative – but they are! Rick Rubin’s book “The Creative Act — A Way of Being” has many contradictions but the thing I like most about it is the assertion that “We are all creative” and that creativity is about our relationship to the world. Two unusual examples of […]
What would the Romantic poets have made of social Media? “They’d have bloody loved it and used it mercilessly for all their creative outpourings.” This is a social media post by Andrea Constable and it made me laugh out loud and then immediately start imagining what sort of conversations I’d have with these illustrious, troubled […]
Does art help us to appreciate our differences? A big part of this year has been taken up with people being driven apart by politics, violence and differences of opinion on many things. When Quincy Jones was 20 years old in 1953, he was part of a big band tour of Europe. The band members […]
When are we most creative? Do we get most creative when we have to fight for survival or when we have the luxury of enough peace and tranquillity to get away from everyday distractions and worries? I’ve just had two reminders of where these two things can co-exist. The first is from Cairns https://readingisart.substack.com/ my […]
