Magnificent advice on writing and the loneliness of creative work from the woman who catalyzed the modern environmental movement.
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Magnificent advice on writing and the loneliness of creative work from the woman who catalyzed the modern environmental movement.
How Nobel laureate John Steinbeck, born on this day in 1902, used the diary as a tool of discipline and a hedge against self-doubt.
The beloved Arab-American painter, poet, and philosopher Kahlil Gibran on why artists make art.
If we make one criterion for defining the artist… the impulse to make something new… — a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good — then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.
Legendary anthropologist Margaret Mead on work, leisure, and creativity.
Inside psychology’s most ambitious and influential study of what makes a creative person, conducted in the late 1950s and foundational to our present understanding of creativity.
(A quarter century earlier, Virginia Woolf made the case that the most creative mind is the androgynous mind.)
The great physicist David Bohm, born 99 years ago today, on creativity and the key to originality in art and science.
Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human, that demand connection at the level of making meaning. If we lose our ability to make meaning — that is, to interpret, to find form in the raw materials of life — then we stand in danger of having meaning made for us, a rupture between what is said and what is done, between false intentions and disastrous consequences.
From poet Ann Lauterbach, an absolutely beautiful, immensely insightful read on why we make art and how it makes us, particularly timely at this moment in culture.
Poet Ann Lauterbach on why we make art and how we learn to know by doing what we care about – absolutely beautiful read.
In the Company of Women – wisdom and practical advice on the creative life from beloved women artists, makers, and entrepreneurs.
In the Company of Women – wisdom and advice on the creative life from beloved women artists, makers, and entrepreneurs, including poet Nikki Giovanni (pictured and quoted above), musician and actor Carrie Brownstein, artist Maira Kalman, designer and radio host Debbie Millman, and media maverick Tavi Gevinson.
A wonderful interview with Patti Smith about the imagination and listening to the creative impulse.
This philosophy of hers is what inspired the 8th of my 10 life-learnings from the first 10 years of Brain Pickings.
The late, great Leonard Cohen on inspiration, work ethic, and the inner workings of creativity.
35 odd jobs Agnes Martin had before she became one of the most influential artists of the past century – including butcher, ice cream scooper, elevator operator, and milkmaid.
Baudelaire on the genius of childhood.