Permanent link to Art and Mystery“. . . there is only one thing valuable in art and that is the bit that cannot be explained. To explain away the mystery of a great painting – if such a feat were possible – would be irreparable harm . . . if there is no mystery then there is no ‘poetry,’ the quality I value above all else in art.”
-- Georges Braque
An Unhappy July the 4th
Tomas Transtromer, the Swedish poet and psychotherapist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. Transtromer, who died in 2015, wrote this poem after the assassination of President John Fitzgerald … Continue Reading An Unhappy July the 4th
Permanent link to The Poetic Image“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” Robert Frank
LAWRENCE RUSS, Photographer: Soul, Art, and Society 