Elizabeth Catlett - Six Portraits of Angela Davis
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Elizabeth Catlett - Untitled (Composition for a Peace Poster) - c. 1950
Cormac McCarthy, from "The Road"
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
"New Sensations" - Lou Reed
Yasuo Kuniyoshi - "Landscape" (c. 1921)
"You Got The Silver" - The Rolling Stones
Edith Neff - "Portrait of my Family, Not Far From Where I Grew Up" (1975)
Marcia Marcus - "Double-Portrait with Still Life" (1960)
Donald Justice - "There is a gold light in certain old paintings..."
KSM - "I Want You to Want Me"
Daniel Garber - "Students of Painting" (1923)
On Grace, from Romans 11 :6
“But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works,
otherwise grace would no longer be grace.”
Wanda Gág - "Self-Portrait in Dresser Mirror - Cream Hill" (1930)
Lifafa - Nikamma
"Courtyard in Venice" (1877) - William Merritt Chase
Bob Dylan - "Oh, Sister"
Andy Warhol - "Flowers" (1964)
Bruce Smith, from "Hungry Ghost"
“…I’m coming to understand
the asymmetrical nature of art, no target, no trigger, no collateral
damage, no one dies from it, one lives with it like a murmur.”