Art is Life

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This group is about books. It is about art. This group is for people who see art as something that lives and breathes. The painter Mark Rothko said that a person looking at his paintings might gain the same spiritual experience he had while creating the paintings. This group is for people who think of art as a guiding principle in their lives. This group is for people who think of literary voices and characters as being "real." This group is for people who feel rapture in the presence of art. This group is for people who recognize that art gives us the power of transcendence.

My name is Theresa Williams. I'm an author, and I'm starting this group as a way of connecting with people who feel the same passion for art that I do. I am a university lecturer and I want to learn from others. I experience the world primarly through "feeling." As Theodore Roethke said, "We think by feeling. What is there to know?" I am coming to discover that the dichotomy of the heart and the intellect is not as I once thought: I am coming to see that "feeling" is not separate from intelligence but an important form of intelligence. The Native Americans have a term for this: "Seeing With The Eye of the Heart."

I hope this can be a place where we can shed our hard outer shells and share what we know about the beauty and terror of life.

I'm interested in having deep and real conversations about art and life.

Here you are welcome to express your opinions and even to disagree, but, please, this is not a war zone. Do be respectful, gracious, and giving.


The photograph is Walt Whitman's butterfly.

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What Is Art?3 non-lus / 3razzamajazz, Février 2014
Journal of Eva Morelli1 non-lu / 1Raymond55, Juillet 2013
What are you currently reading?320 non-lus / 320michaelbartley, Janvier 2013
Paintings/Painters that you love.79 non-lus / 79Bookoholic73, Septembre 2012
The business of art...?3 non-lus / 3krolik, Juin 2012
What Did You WRITE Today?32 non-lus / 32Naren559, Janvier 2012
Unabashidly emotional music.77 non-lus / 77Naren559, Décembre 2011
Books or art that fundamentally changed the way you think or feel?57 non-lus / 57TheresaWilliams, Septembre 2011
Some thoughts on Nobel prize (literature of couse) winners.5 non-lus / 5Rood, Septembre 2011
identify this painting4 non-lus / 4chellerystick, Janvier 2011
Super-duper literary figures.7 non-lus / 7varielle, Décembre 2010
Childhood stories YOU would re-read as an adult.24 non-lus / 24TheresaWilliams, Octobre 2010
What is a library?9 non-lus / 9margad, Septembre 2010
Has a book or piece of artwork ever made you weep?104 non-lus / 104TheresaWilliams, Juillet 2010
The "Hospital" part of my Library38 non-lus / 38Naren559, Février 2010
The Letter Project4 non-lus / 4TheresaWilliams, Novembre 2009
Celebrate!2 non-lus / 2TheresaWilliams, Août 2009
Oh yes: "Art"!3 non-lus / 3Naren559, Août 2009
Definition of art as a mode of knowing2 non-lus / 2guido47, Août 2009
Which Ted Kooser works should I Buy?3 non-lus / 3TheresaWilliams, Mai 2009
The Making of a Graphic Novel3 non-lus / 3tros, Mai 2009
Anne Sexton37 non-lus / 37TheresaWilliams, Mai 2009
Death and the Afterlife39 non-lus / 39Naren559, Avril 2009
Close to the bone16 non-lus / 16mejix, Mars 2009
Andrew Wyeth died this morning10 non-lus / 10Naren559, Février 2009
How I Spent My Summer Vacation4 non-lus / 4guido47, Janvier 2009
The Books Around You47 non-lus / 47hemlokgang, Janvier 2009
How would you describe your inner life?60 non-lus / 60Naren559, Octobre 2008
short story website3 non-lus / 3STOCeallaigh, Septembre 2008
Some things that you noticed today230 non-lus / 230michaelbartley, Août 2008
Animals in literature48 non-lus / 48ambushedbyasnail, Juillet 2008
Videos8 non-lus / 8belleyang, Juillet 2008
How Art Made the World1 non-lu / 1tros, Juillet 2008
Sharing our wriitng, blogs, art, etc.15 non-lus / 15belleyang, Juin 2008
Off to P-Town! See you in 3-mo!5 non-lus / 5margad, Juin 2008
Facebook47 non-lus / 47belleyang, Juin 2008
Writing Groups15 non-lus / 15belleyang, Juin 2008
Lines from works that you love.74 non-lus / 74hemlokgang, Mai 2008
Ralph Waldo Emerson43 non-lus / 43TheresaWilliams, Mai 2008
Author Chat (The Secret of Hurricanes)5 non-lus / 5TheresaWilliams, Mai 2008
Activities, Accomplishments, Announcements30 non-lus / 30TheresaWilliams, Mai 2008
robert rauschenberg9 non-lus / 9DMTripp, Mai 2008
Do you work joyfully...or suffer for your art?79 non-lus / 79mejix, Avril 2008
Robert Frost11 non-lus / 11TheresaWilliams, Avril 2008
The Satisfaction of the Creative Impulse by Mark Rothko, 19417 non-lus / 7DMTripp, Avril 2008
Writing your dreams...13 non-lus / 13mpramanik, Mars 2008
Lit. you thought you'd hate5 non-lus / 5margad, Mars 2008
When words fail you...9 non-lus / 9Clueless, Février 2008
The Seasons46 non-lus / 46TheresaWilliams, Février 2008
When you just don't "get it."20 non-lus / 20TheresaWilliams, Janvier 2008
Quotes by authors that you love52 non-lus / 52CliffBurns, Janvier 2008
Christmas/New Year's stories?6 non-lus / 6margad, Janvier 2008
Memoir Title?23 non-lus / 23TheresaWilliams, Décembre 2007
Let's write a story.73 non-lus / 73MarianV, Décembre 2007
Biting off more than you can chew?9 non-lus / 9TheresaWilliams, Décembre 2007
Have you ever gone to a reading that turned out to be a profound experience?38 non-lus / 38CliffBurns, Novembre 2007
Grand Epiphanies7 non-lus / 7margad, Novembre 2007
Finding more than one path to our creative lives7 non-lus / 7CliffBurns, Novembre 2007
What is the question?15 non-lus / 15TheresaWilliams, Novembre 2007
We Come To Something Without Knowing Why15 non-lus / 15margad, Octobre 2007
Art is Laugh15 non-lus / 15margad, Octobre 2007
Ill Lit45 non-lus / 45villandry, Octobre 2007
The Will to Believe75 non-lus / 75margad, Octobre 2007
Poetry as non-fiction55 non-lus / 55margad, Octobre 2007
Create a book and author11 non-lus / 11TheresaWilliams, Septembre 2007
Richard Brautigan15 non-lus / 15SqueakyChu, Septembre 2007
Voices and Visions Audio1 non-lu / 1TheresaWilliams, Septembre 2007
From whence love?14 non-lus / 14TheresaWilliams, Août 2007
Place: The South40 non-lus / 40TheresaWilliams, Août 2007
Your voice11 non-lus / 11TheresaWilliams, Août 2007
What Good Is A Group Like This?9 non-lus / 9geneg, Août 2007
Price is (almost) no object9 non-lus / 9sisaruus, Août 2007
Place28 non-lus / 28southwestpoet, Août 2007
Artists', Poets', Novelists' letters25 non-lus / 25TheresaWilliams, Août 2007
Inner, not outer life10 non-lus / 10TheresaWilliams, Août 2007
some of my quilts27 non-lus / 27TheresaWilliams, Août 2007
Fiction1 non-lu / 1TheresaWilliams, Août 2007
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