The Artist's Way

wonderful pair of gloves—one wonderfully comforting, self-loving something. Collage: Collect a stack of at leas ...

a new one every few months, or collage more thoroughly a dream you are trying to accomplish. When you start a ...

WEEK 8 Recovering a Sense of Strength This week tackles another major creative block: time. You will exp ...

the isolation of the beleaguered artist’s brain. As mental-health experts are quick to point out, in order to ...

we can handle intellectually far outstrips what we can handle emotionally. We must be alert to fla ...

when violated, has the impact of a parental violation. What we are talking about here is emotional incest. ...

Devoted as they are to the scholarly appreciation of art, most academics find the beast intimidating ...

university, where my teaching colleagues published widely and well on film topics of the most esoteric ...

viewed solely in terms of its shortfalls. Time and again I saw promising work met with a volley of ...

allow our darker critical powers unfettered play upon the seedling artists in our midst. Trust that ...

When Ted finished writing his first novel, he bravely sent it off to a literary agent. He also sent ...

mourn the wounding he had endured as a young writer. He had to make his peace with the lost years this ...

process of healing them. GAIN DISGUISED AS LOSS Art is the act of structuring time. “Look at it this way,” a p ...

“Gain disguised as loss” is a potent artist’s tool. To acquire it, simply, brutally, ask: “How can this ...

I left Hollywood. I went to Chicago, bought a used camera and, using my Miami Vice writing money, ...

more—all as I toiled as a writer for such diverse publications as Rolling Stone, the New York Times, ...

video artists, working with Sam Shepard, Joseph Papp, Ornette Coleman. Clarke clearly took to heart ...

quickly solidifies into a leaden heart, which makes any action difficult. When faced with a loss, imme ...

exploration. “I’m too old” is something we tell ourselves to save ourselves from the emotional cost ...

man in his seventies. “I’m too old” is an evasive tactic. It is always used to avoid facing fear. ...