What is art? Where do you make it? Where do you show it?
How you think about those questions can impact how you see yourself as a creator, and what you do about being one.
Artist Robert Irwin, a pioneer of the Light and Space movement, in 1970 abandon…
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Isaac Asimov On How To Be Creative
Isaac Asimov participated in a team project in 1959 for ARPA – the Advanced Research Projects Agency – and wrote an essay for the group on developing creativity. Here are a few excerpts: “How do people get new ideas? “Presumably, the process of creativity, whatever it is, is essentially the same in all its branches […]
Can You Be Present in Your Art and Your ‘Real’ Life?
Acting, writing and other forms of creative expression can help us better understand life, both as artist and audience. But as a performer or other artist, can you get too caught up in the fantasy life of your creative work? And how do you think of yourself as a creative person? That can affect how […]
Creative Passion or Just Doing What You Really Want
Passion can be a deep motivator for creative people, but being too concerned with “finding our passion” can be self-limiting. “The presence of talent is not sufficient. Many people have more than one talent, and wonder what to do with them.” Jane Piirto, Ph.D. adds in her book “Talented Children and Adults” that “A useful […]
Using Our Demons To Create
One of those cliches about creative expression is to “Write what you know.” Maybe it can be expanded to “Create from what you know and who you are.” Lena Dunham is the creator, executive producer, and one of the stars of the HBO series “Girls” about four young women living in New York. She bases […]