Inspiration on Art & Creativity


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	Inspired is a weekly essay on art, seeing, and the creative life, written for anyone who has ever stood in front of a painting and felt something they could not quite name. The essays began with a simple recognition: life is shaped by our connections to other people. Every conversation, every shared moment, every encounter leaves its mark. Art lives in this same space of connection — it emerges from our accumulated experiences and travels outward to touch others, adding threads we never intended and creating patterns we cannot see. Nearly sixty pieces are gathered here, on the creative process, wonder, the sacred, science, music, and the artists themselves.
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	creative process & practice
	After Hours \| 18 Oct 2026 A Relationship Begins \| 20 Sep 2026 A Strange Kind of Meeting \| 23 Aug 2026 Something Handed \| 16 Aug 2026 Afraid to Walk Into \| 5 Aug 2026 The Gap \| 26 Jul 2026 As Close to Heaven as We Can \| 12 Jul 2026 Beautiful Blindness \| 7 Jun 2026 Because I Asked \| 24 May 2026 What the Hands Remember \| 22 Mar 2026 Quiet Thoughts The Discipline of Seeing Go Fish \| 1 Feb 2026 We Are Here \| 18 Jan 2026 When Time Stands Still \| 7 Dec 2025 Walls, Windows & Doors: a metaphor for creativity \| 5 Oct 2025 Duty over Dreams \| 21 Sep 2025 The Inner Voice \| 14 Sep 2025 Negotiating with Doubt			“Creative practice is a daily pilgrimage — showing up, again and again, to meet the unknown and slowly shape it into form.”
	philosophy & purpose of art
	What Art Does That Screens Cannot \| 5 Apr 2026 The Space Between \| 15 Mar 2026 Where Love Stories Develop \| 8 Mar 2026 Art’s Contradictions \| 16 Nov 2025 A Laboratory for Visual Thought \| 2 Nov 2025 Plucking Thistles \| 26 Oct 2025 What’s the Point!			“Art is where philosophy takes on skin and breath — its purpose is not to answer what life means, but to let us feel meaning alive in form, color, and movement.”
	artist perspectives
	A View from the Studio \| Don Bailey \| 6 Sep 2026 Because I Asked \| Gene Sasse \| 24 May 2026 A View from the Studio \| Elizabeth Gorcey \| 14 Apr 2026 A View from the Studio \| Robin Jack Sarner \| A View from the Studio \| Ignacio Escobar \| 7 Jan 2026 A View from the Studio \| Maurice Quillinan \| 23 Oct 2025			“Every studio holds a hidden vantage point — the artist’s way of showing us how the world looks from behind the brush.”
	wonder & perception
	Evidence \| 13 Sep 2026 The Structure of the Delight \| 2 Aug 2026 Walking Toward Wonder \| 3 May 2026 How I Never Learned to Read \| 19 Apr 2026 Trust Your Eyes \| 11 Jan 2026 Finding Art in the Unexpected \| 12 Oct 2025 The Viewer’s Journey The Alchemy of Wonder Where Does Inspiration Come From?			“Wonder is the moment our perception wakes up to how miraculous the ordinary really is.”
	art & sacred
	Moving Through \| 19 Jul 2026 The Passage \| 4 Apr 2026 What If? \| 29 Mar 2026 Why Not? \| 30 Mar 2026 How Come? \| 31 Mar 2026 The Fingerprint \| 21 Mar 2026 Choosing Light \| 28 Dec 2025 The Nativity \| 22 Dec 2025 Where Art Starts \| 23 Nov 2025 Einstein’s Miracle Philosophy & the Creative Spirit			“Art is how the soul learns to speak — each color a prayer, each line a quiet path back to the sacred within.”
	art & science
	Whether We Are \| 30 Sep 2026 A Stable Combination \| 9 Aug 2026 The Life You Have Been Making \| 31 May 2026 Art Keeps Us Younger \| 17 May 2026 The Default Mind Where Everything Connects Your Brain on Art \| 19 Oct 2025			“Art and science begin with the same impulse: to observe closely and make sense of what we discover.”
	creative principles
	Our Stories \| 25 Jan 2026 The Problem with Problems \| 4 Jan 2026 Inspired Action \| 21 Dec 2025 The Apple Seed \| 30 Nov 2025 Simplicity Takes Wisdom The Threads That Bind \| 28 Sep 2025 Celebrating the Journey of Art & Play			“Creative principles are not rules to follow, but values that shape how we see, choose, and make.”
	art & music
	Dancing About Architecture \| 11 Oct 2026 Frozen Music \| 30 Aug 2026 Something Handed			“Every painting hums with a rhythm, and every song paints a color — art and music are two hands of the same creative pulse.”

“Creative practice is a daily pilgrimage — showing up, again and again, to meet the unknown and slowly shape it into form.”

“Art is where philosophy takes on skin and breath — its purpose is not to answer what life means, but to let us feel meaning alive in form, color, and movement.”

“Every studio holds a hidden vantage point — the artist’s way of showing us how the world looks from behind the brush.”

“Wonder is the moment our perception wakes up to how miraculous the ordinary really is.”

“Art is how the soul learns to speak — each color a prayer, each line a quiet path back to the sacred within.”

“Art and science begin with the same impulse: to observe closely and make sense of what we discover.”

“Creative principles are not rules to follow, but values that shape how we see, choose, and make.”

“Every painting hums with a rhythm, and every song paints a color — art and music are two hands of the same creative pulse.”

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“Creative practice is a daily pilgrimage —
showing up, again and again, to
meet the unknown and slowly
shape it into form.”

“Art is where philosophy takes on
skin and breath — its purpose is
not to answer what life means,
but to let us feel meaning alive
in form, color, and movement.”

“Every studio holds a hidden
vantage point — the artist’s way
of showing us how
the world looks
from behind the brush.”

“Wonder is the moment our
perception wakes up to
how miraculous the
ordinary really is.”

“Art is how the soul learns to speak —
each color a prayer,
each line a quiet path back
to the sacred within.”

“Art and science begin with
the same impulse:
to observe closely and
make sense of what
we discover.”

“Creative principles are not rules to follow,
but values that shape how we see,
choose, and make.”