I’m reading Rick Rubin’s new book The Creative Act: A Way of Being. It’s the best book on making art & living a creative life I’ve read since reading Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles and Ted Orland. Here’s an excerpt from Rubins new book: Freedom There…
Tag: Art & Fear
3 questions
Henry James once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist’s work: what is the artist trying to achieve? does he/she succeed? is it worth doing? In the great little book Art & Fear Bayles and Orland examines James’ questions, and comments: The first two questions ask you to respond to the work itself,…
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