Ideas

a.m. stein

Portrait of the artist as entirely subsumed into their art

There is no sorrow peace cannot resolve— there is nothing peace cannot do— there is no undertaking a little more peace...

Maybe our talents ARE our "demons."

Art is a wound that bleeds and will not staunch formed of the rift, in us, between conscious and unconscious...

Some people said I was wasting my time studying poetry, when I could have been devoting my time to something...

The artist passes their net through a cloud of ideas. One or two are caught. The rest blunder onward, unknowable. So...

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