Tag: painting
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July 24, 2014
I’ve been spending time each morning with a book entitled Daily Rituals, How Artists Work by Mason Curry. Today, I found these words from Georgia O’Keefe: “The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one’s life.” That is the way a story feels to…
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August 2, 2012
There is a painting I love by Vuillard called “The Artist’s Mother Opening a Door.” Whenever I go to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, I seek it out. I’m not sure why the painting moves me so. I think that it has something to do with the door being only halfway open, and the figure…
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April 12, 2011
I was signing a first grader’s copy of Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig a few days ago, and the first grader said to me, “Um, I don’t know if you noticed this or not, but every Mercy Watson book ends exactly the same way. Everybody just sits around a table and eats toast with…