In the process of going through my collage/artist books, I found a little book with a very favorite quote. It is from Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write:
"And why should you do all these things? Why should we all use our creative power and write or paint or play music, or whatever it tells us to do?
"Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money. Because the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e. share it with others?"
As beautiful as the day she wrote it 1938 and a manifesto for our time as well. Art Saves Lives. Everyone Make Art.
Book note: a small puzzle book, which I identified as a Flutter Book pattern from Shereen LaPlantz, 3" x 4.5". Multiple copies--maybe 10.
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