making

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• Jan 30 The By-Product Robert Henri, The Art Spirit The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture—however unreasonable this may sound. The p...
• Jan 29 Thinking in Common Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking ...
• Jan 28 The Irreducible Ingredient Emily Dickinson, Poems To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
• Jan 24 What the Bees Know Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 'Of the Education of Children' (trans. John Florio) Even as bees pillage here and there from flowers, but afterward make honey, which is all theirs; it ...
• Jan 21 The Only Question Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send th...