EclecticInk.com Arts E-zine

Serving up tasty treats to creative souls from around the world since 2003.


"LET US DARE TO READ, THINK, SPEAK, AND WRITE." - JOHN ADAMS 

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 May those who love us, love us.

And for those who don't love us,

May God turn their hearts.

And if he can not turn their hearts,

May he turn their ankles,

So we may know them by their limping.

Welcome to EclecticInk.com! Home of the TENACIOUS ART PIMP!!!

Established in 2003 by American Artist-at-Large Marla M. Devlin www.EclecticInk.com is an arts e-zine that features interviews, original art work for sale, stories, articles, links, reviews and various resources for members of the global creative community.  Purchase original art work by extraordinary artists from around the world courtesy of the 'Visual Arts' page. Visit the online store to purchase original MIII, DV8 and E.I. merchandise.

 

"IT DOES NOT REQUIRE A MAJORITY TO PREVAIL, BUT RATHER AN IRATE, TIRELESS MINORITY KEEN TO SET BRUSH FIRES IN PEOPLE'S MINDS." - Samuel Adams


 

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"DO NOT GO WHERE THE PATH MAY LEAD - GO INSTEAD WHERE THERE IS NO PATH AND LEAVE A TRAIL." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


 

"I DISTRUST THOSE PEOPLE WHO KNOW SO WELL WHAT GOD WANTS THEM TO DO BECAUSE I NOTICE THAT IT ALWAYS COINCIDES WITH THEIR OWN DESIRES." - SUSAN B. ANTHONY

   

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"ONE CANNOT CONSENT TO CREEP WHEN ONE FEELS AN IMPULSE TO SOAR." - Helen Keller

LINKS TO SITES WE LIKE (ART):

www.artcyclopedia.com is the guide to great art on the internet.

He is one of the greatest artists of all time, a man whose name has become synonymous with the word "masterpiece," MICHAELANGELO BUONARROTI: http://www.michelangelo.com/buonarroti.html

She was one of the first women artists to achieve recognition in the male-dominated world of post-Renaissance art, ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI: http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/index.html

Considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, VINCENT VAN GOGH introduced Expressionism to modern art: http://www.vggallery.com

Over the course of his career, ANDY WARHOL transformed contemporary art: www.warhol.org 

Visit our friends at BUCK SPINSTER POSTMODERN: http://buckspinster.com

ANDREAS HYLTHEN is a freelance photographer specializing in environmental portraiture, food and drinks: www.fotografah.com

METAPHYSICAL PAINTINGS by JULIO MATEO/Abstract Art Galleries: http://www.Mateo.net

Discover Santa Barbara's Arte Divino Studio which hosts a collection of art by contemporary artist, MAURICIO ARCESIO: www.ArteDivino.com

LITERATURE:

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path." - Edgar Allan Poe to Frederick W. Thomas (February 14, 1849) The EDGAR ALLAN POE  Society of Baltimore: www.eapoe.org

HERMANN HESSE's novels became immensely popular during the 1950's in the English-speaking world, where their criticism of bourgeois values and interest in Eastern religious philosophy and Jungian psychology echoed the preoccupations of the younger generation: http://www.levity.com/corduroy/hesse.htm

ALLEN GINSBERG - Shadow Changes into Bone
All Ginsberg, all the time. Includes poems, photos, links, articles, interviews, humor and tributes:
http://www.ginzy.com

WORDS OF WISDOM

"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea." - JACK KEROUAC

"Look, you con man, make a living out of your death." - ERNEST HEMINGWAY, A Moveable Feast

"NO MATTER WHAT PASSIONS COMPOSE THEM, ALL PRIVATE WORLDS ARE GOOD, THEY ARE NEVER VULGAR PLACES." - TRUMAN CAPOTE, The Grass Harp

"For a man/woman need only to be turned around once with his/her eyes shut in this world to be lost.... Not til we are lost ... do we begin to find ourselves." - HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden

"All men/women dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that all was vanity; the dreamers of the day are dangerous men/women, for they may act upon their whims and desires, dreaming with open eyes whilst making their notions possible."

- T.E. LAWRENCE

"WHAT IS PERMITTED TEACHES US NOTHING." - From the opera "Ariane" by DUKAS

"INSPIRE A CREATIVE MIND, AND SPARK A REVOLUTION." - Anonymous

 "Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."  

~ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND~
1840-1918
 
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." - BILL SHAKESPEARE