Philthy Conversations with Artists

Philthy Art is made up of many things, all having to do with interactive, creative living:

• writing advice
• podcasts
• encouragement and inspiration for all creative people
• Convoviews* with Philadelphia artists
• Slide show presentations of artists' work with interpretive words and music
• Rick Wight's riffing and photography
• One-minute poems (interlopers in the land of Philthy Art
• advice on marketing your art
• ruminations on the artistic process
• Mister Misses, a Philly artist in Paris who just says the darndest things

  *From the latin "convoviewus," meaning "to interview in a conversational way."

"What any creative person needs – all they need – is not praise or blame, but an active and grown-up engagement with the process of making things. That process is necessarily experimental, either in part or in the whole, and sometimes things work well, and sometimes less well. Sometimes things work for a big audience, sometimes only for a few. That’s how it is, and I wish, really wish, that we had a mature culture, interested in creativity, that could understand that.

-Jeanette Winterson

"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist.... We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."

-Tristan Tzara

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.

-T.S. Eliot

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

-Emile Zola