"In 1930, Iowa artist Grant Wood painted American Gothic. The models he used for the painting were his sister Nan Wood Graham and his dentist, Byron McKeeby. Here they are next to the painting."

"That's where artists do their work. Not in the safe places, but out there, in a place where they might fail, where it might end badly, where connections might be lost, sensibilities might be offended, jokes might not be gotten."

New on patrickrhone / journal: Transformation

Amazing story. – RT @irishgirl: Paris apartment unlocked after 70 years, a time capsule from 1940.

"Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist."

Seth Godin