Philthy Conversations with Artists

• 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."

Photography, drawing, and painting by Nina Alvarez

-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