Significance

We humans create meaning for ourselves through storytelling. That is, we reflect on our experiences and then create narratives, images, shapes and sounds in order to communicate new and interesting perspectives to others. The resulting works of art can then become important elements of our culture.

Original Content

• Art and the Eye of the Beholder
• An Appreciation for Building a Case for the Detective Story
• How to Listen to Music
• My Advice to Young People of All Ages
• Dethroning the False God of User Experience Design
• An Appreciation for Paul Thorn and his 800 Pound Jesus
• Citizen Kane vs. Citizen Bailey
• An Appreciation for The Weight
• An Appreciation for Getting Back to The Feeling

Quotations

• Art and Spirit
• Art has to transform life itself
• Art is a Hammer
• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth
• Art presents us with a window into the minds of these people
• Art, Science and Empire
• Cinema was about revelation
• Cockpits with Instruments Controlled by Gremlins
• Couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art?
• Critical Thinking Followed by Action
• Deeper convictions of the heart
• Design is not Appearance
• The Divine Gift of Purely Nonsensical Speech and Action
• The divine literatus
• Dreams Come True
• The dullness of fact
• Enemies of Art and Artist
• Excitement from Art
• God and Morality
• History as Postmodern Collage
• The Inner Life of the Artist
• Life is not like formula fiction
• Little I recognized as music
• The Loftiest and Purest Art
• A Long Conversation
• More Popular than Jesus
• The Mysterious
• Myth-Makers
• Myths are stronger than anyone could have imagined
• Nature transcends our tendencies to label and classify
• Never Knew Cocaine to Improve Anything
• Notation not to be confused with music itself
• The only sensible procedure for a critic
• The original naiveté
• Our Reply to Violence
• The Power of Art
• Questioning one's habitual ways of seeing
• Records we made together in the sixties
• The Songs are my Lexicon
• Start with romance and build to a reality
• The Tautness of this Resonant Connection
• That Magical Honeycomb of Words
• Time is no match for Toni Morrison
• To see a world in a grain of sand
• Unbelievable Heroes
• The Undisputed Sovereignty of the Human Being
• Vital and Significant Forms of Art
• We All Derive From the Same Source
• Why People Sing
• Words that are empowered that make your hair stand on end
• The world is failing precisely because