Word Painting

The magic of words and books

kadrikeremkaranfil

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kamigarcia:

Read books. #reading

kamigarcia

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digbicks:

Minimalist Quotation Print, Ryan McArthur

ianbrooks:

Street Lit

Putting a message on a wall can be a much more effective way to reach the masses than expecting them to go find a book and learn it themselves. Some men just want to watch the world learn, regardless of medium. This collection of street arts details some memorable lines from famous books, hit the pictures to see which author and title, if you didnt already recognize them immediately.

(via: BuzzFeed)

Most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it’d find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.

David Foster Wallace

myfirsthomelandshavebeenbooks:

Meg Hitchcock

The Satanic Verses

“Repentence” from the Koran

Letters cut from “The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie

21 x 19 inches, 2012

see more of her work here

useyourmanners:

Vonnegut, 1995 (left), and McCarthy, 1975, both self portraits.
More fascinating self-portraiture by famous authors here.

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somethingreallyfuckingawesome:

Brian Dettmeroriginally from Chicago is a contemporary artistis known for his detailed and innovative sculptures with books.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.

C.S. Lewis