false 9 56 55 true 5704063 read 0 true 2654582 currently-reading 1 true 2654581 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77858701 to: Cerebus Book 05: Jaka's Story (Paperback) by Dave Sim
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77726536 to: The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Read this to my wife. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76408279 to: Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence Hyde (Paperback) by Frans Masereel
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76086638 to: Confessions. Saint Augustine (Oxford World's Classics) by Augustine of Hippo
Got a lot out of this one, need to add all my notes. However, I can't say I "loved" it, or really, even "liked" it. It was great, informative, but didn't really set anything on fire. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75200531 to: Facing Shame: Families in Recovery (Paperback) by Merle A. Fossum
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71632854 to: Courage & Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential (Paperback) by Gordon T. Smith
p24 Typical narrow understanding of a calling: "your only excuse for staying home and not going to the mission field is if by staying home you can do more to further the cause of missions than by going..."
p39 A common but unfortunate message: "God isn't looking for ability, but availability"
p73 "We will not be a source of wisdom, unless we bless"
p144 "We suffer with hope"
p150 "is something lost by abandoning oral confessions..."
p155 Being a hero v. Accepting limitations
p157 "Nothing represents maturity as much as emotional resilience"
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71629827 to: Metaphors We Live By (Paperback) by George Lakoff
This book changes the way I think about the world.

My Notes:
p121 Interactional properties -> p162 in truth
p140 List of Love metaphors
p153 Old definition of metaphors v. the authors new definition
p156 summery
p157 Metaphors have the power to define reality (by revealing/hiding)
p159 Truth
p169 When we desire to explain instead of answering true or false...
p179 Truth is a function of our conceptual system
p184 Meaning comes from people
p185 Third option for objective v. subjective
p226 Truth is...based on a non-universal conceptual system...
p233 Metaphor in therapy
p258 Metaphors are learned when two experiences occur at once...
p274 There appears to be universal metaphors ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68904925 to: At Home in the World (Paperback) by Michael Jackson
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63249464 to: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Fantastic 14th-Century Account of a Journey to the East (Dover Books on Travel, Adventure) by John Mandeville
p.45 - inspiration for the white tree of gondor?
p.59 - great tree that began to grow on christs conception
p.62 - the tree judas hung himself upon, also, where the tree of the crosses grew
p.103 - funny line about amazonia
p.106 - diamonds growing square, male & female, also--why men should wear diamonds
p.115 - the zombie hand of st. thomas
p.191 - lots of strange beasts ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56751934 to: The Practice and Science of Drawing (Paperback) by Harold Speed
Note:
See introduction for excellent discussion on what art is.

Speed's Definition of Art:
Art is the Rhythmic Expression of Feeling

Quotes
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If he fails from lack of skill to make his representation convincing to reasonable people, no matter how sublime has been his artistic intention, he will probably have landed in the ridiculous. And yet, so great is the power of direction exercised by the emotions on the artist that it is seldom his work fails to convey something, when genuine feeling has been the motive. (p29)

The study, therefore, of the representation of visible nature and of the powers of expression possessed by form and colour is the object of the painter's training. (p29)

You cannot teach people how to feel. All you can do is to surround them with the conditions calculated to stimulate any natural feeling they may possess. And this is done by familiarising students with the best works of art and nature. (p30)

There is more direct appeal to the imagination in line drawing than in possibly anything else in pictorial art. (p50)

The test is whether it has life and conveys genuine feeling. (p74)

It is only when a painter consciously chooses a manner not his own, which he does not comprehend and is incapable of firing with his own personality, that his picture is ridiculous and conventional in the dead sense....The artist has to discover a convention for himself, one that fits his particular individuality. (p75)

Originality is more concerned with sincerity than with peculiarity. (p76)

Nature seems to abhor equalities, never making two things alike or the same proportion if she can help it. All systems founded on equalities, as are so many modern systems of social reform, are man's work, the products of a machine-made age. For this is the difference between nature and the machine: nature never produces two things alike, the machine never produces two things different. (p229)

To know what you want to do and then to do it is the secret of good style and technique. (p265)

Art is not a substitute for nature, but an expression of feeling produced in the consciousness of the artist, and intimately associated with the material through which it is expressed in his work. (p272)

There is something that makes for power in the limitations your materials impose....If students could only be induced to impose more restraint upon themselves when they attempt so difficult a medium as paint, it would be greatly to the advantage of their work. (p273)

Those artists who can only draw in some weird fashion remote from nature may produce work of some interest; but they are too much at the mercy of a natural trick of hand to hope to be more than interesting curiosities in art. (p287)

The "seeking after originality" so much advocated would be better put "seeking for sincerity." (p287) ]]>