From My Library to Yours

Check out the new Reading List page for books I recommend about sketchbooks, the creative process, and creativity across disciplines. I'll continue to build this list as I find out about more books of interest. If you are aware of any books that should be on this list but aren't, please let me know.

A Little Wisdom from St. E

Truth is not that which can be demonstrated by the aid of logic. If orange-trees are hardy and rich in fruit in this bit of soil and not that, then this bit of soil is what is truth for orange-trees. If a particular religion, or culture, or scale of values, if one form of activity rather than another, brings self-fulfillment to a man, releases the prince asleep within him unknown to himself, then that scale of values, that culture, that form of activity, constitute his truth. Logic, you say? Let logic wangle in its own explanation of life.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)

Busy Life. No Write.

There are good problems, and there are bad problems. Lately, I've got too much other good and interesting work to do, so my writing has slowed down a bit. But fortunately, I've continued to work in my books. Here's another sample from Book Seven.


As always, these spreads are also with all of their little siblings on the Book Seven page.

More Images from Book Seven

Armies of Cute and Other Wonders

More tidbits from Book Seven. Bon Appétit.

Haiku Interlude: A Paean to Professional Envy

Salieri’s Roller Coaster

Who has not felt it?
Love and hate and love again
Because you’re better

Hmmm...

"In the art world there is a snobbery which suggests that the artist is meant to be a shadowy figure in the background behind the work. That kind of high-integrity marketing strategy is very common. Whether people call it a marketing strategy or integrity is another matter ... The monk-artist is an attractive archetype in a world where there are only so many - the belligerent drunk, the batty dame, the flaming tortured soul. Its a big part of the attraction of art - the work as a relic of the artist/saint/holy fool. People want to touch the cloth or whatever. It’s a part of the religion.”

British ceramicist Grayson Perry

Winner of the 2003 Turner Prize

Quoted in Dr. Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World