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A review by robyn_m
Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing by Natalie Goldberg
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Accessible and playful. Includes thirteen memoir chapters, twenty-two assignments for the reader, and a gallery of the author's paintings.
page 66: painting as sustenance and enrichment to the writing life:
"When I left painting, I didn't realize that I gave up a deep source of my writing, that place in me where I can let my work flow. When I cut out painting, I cut off that underground stream of mayhem, joy, nonsense, absurdity. [...] because I never took painting seriously."
page 75: snowball effect, urgency of color:
"I wanted the red, although I knew it distracted me from the simple perfection of gray and blue, but when I painted the red, then I wanted to add a dash of orange, and then, oh lord, how could I forget lime green. Pretty soon I missed pink, and then I'd feel an urgency to brush a patina of turquoise in the background."
page 77: white as emptiness
page 66: painting as sustenance and enrichment to the writing life:
"When I left painting, I didn't realize that I gave up a deep source of my writing, that place in me where I can let my work flow. When I cut out painting, I cut off that underground stream of mayhem, joy, nonsense, absurdity. [...] because I never took painting seriously."
page 75: snowball effect, urgency of color:
"I wanted the red, although I knew it distracted me from the simple perfection of gray and blue, but when I painted the red, then I wanted to add a dash of orange, and then, oh lord, how could I forget lime green. Pretty soon I missed pink, and then I'd feel an urgency to brush a patina of turquoise in the background."
page 77: white as emptiness