This book is about using art as an instrument of personal transformation, enabling us to move from an inherited to a chosen state of being. Peter L...
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Jan 05, 2009
Kim
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A basic book about the creative process, but both times I've read it I've literally dropped reading the book to begin something creative. It inspired me to write my first song.
One of my favorite parts is at the beginning, when the author Peter London talks about walking through a museum of great Master paintings as a graduate student of painting and art history. "The compositions were taut; nothing was superfluous, nothing missing. The landscapes, still lifes, and portraits More...
One of my favorite parts is at the beginning, when the author Peter London talks about walking through a museum of great Master paintings as a graduate student of painting and art history. "The compositions were taut; nothing was superfluous, nothing missing. The landscapes, still lifes, and portraits More...
Jan 22, 2011
Richard
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In Peter London’s No More Secondhand Art: Awakening The Artist Within, he states, “We have learned to be embarrassed by our efforts. We have learned to feel so inept and disenfranchised from our own visual expressions that we simply cease doing it altogether.” As a society, we have lost touch with our creative essence, a part of us that emerges from our most spiritual and pure existence. Our inner critic hisses at us as we try something new, some form of creative expression, and we shut down
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Jan 13, 2012
"The artistic process is more than a collection of crafted things; it is more than the process of creating those things. It is the chance to encounter dimensions of our inner beings and to discover deep, rewarding patterns of meaning." page 7
Apr 01, 2008
Kelly
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I liked this book though it is on the far end of making art only for yourself and no one else. If you want to make art for a living you have to keep others in mind at least a little, otherwise your work won't be marketable. Good insight into who we are as creatures of the gods and how when we create whether through art, music, dance, yoga, or other spiritual rituals we are getting a natural high by doing what we were designed to do. Some good thoughts, some not so good thoughts. Eeeh. Like I sai
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