Doug Anderson on Architecture:
architecture is public art which, eyesore or triumph of taste and beauty, affects the lives of all. Unlike a painting in a gallery, the public doesn't get to choose whether or not to look at it.via Show of the Week: Getting Frank Gehr by Doug Anderson.
I guess people like to identify; I guess they don't want to be alonevia Iris Apfel on Individuality, Her New Movie, and Being Famous by Isabel Wilkinson.
Sarah Perry on Insight:
A special type of intelligence is the organization of complexity into a simpler, less resource-intensive form. The experience of such a compression is what is called “insight,”via Cartographic Compression by Sarah Perry at ribbonfarm.
Sean O'Hagan on Contact Sheets:
the contact sheet is a repository of evidence that can reveal both a photographer’s greatness – and their fallibility.via Contact sheets: where the magic and chaos of photographs comes alive by Sean O'Hagan.
William Eggleston on Photographs:
Objects in photos are naturally full of human presencevia On Capturing Beauty in the Mundane by Eric Kim.
When looked at this way, photos of the derelict, decayed and apparent mundane, can become full of meaning and emotion.
Jeffrey Smart on Keeping with It:
It is no use waiting about for inspiration. An artist has to work, work when he does not wish to work, and sometimes pursue and flog a dead painting, all the time knowing, it will be discarded. But he knows that by the act of painting, even in despair, he is placing himself in a position where something may turn up. It is the agony of creation. It takes some sort of mad persistence to go on being a painter.via Jeffrey Smart (by Barry Pearce) by Jeffrey Smart.
You can’t control anything and once you accept that and stop trying to get control, then you actually get some controlvia Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 15 … The Jeff Story Continues by Street Shooter.
