

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall in love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin --
Find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less... You will be able to go around the world, learning languages, speaking to everybody, because no one can be more human than you or be less human... Remember that.

Art has a funny way of showing up in some of the most unexpected places. Cave walls. Matchbooks. The heads of tiny ...
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Wise words from one of the Britain's most provocative wordsmiths in contemporary literature
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I love a good festival! Whether it's for music, art, film, poetry or just the cultural exchange of ideas, festivals make ...
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