The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Make good art.
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.