Art as a Way of Life

by Roderick MacIver

Filled with elegant watercolors and inspirational prose, Art as a Way of Life offers reflections on art and creativity, empowering us to discover and nurture the creative spirit within. It is an encouraging book for people wanting to live, work, and love in the creative spirit.

A wide range of creative innovators, including Carl Rogers, Robert Henri, Tom Jay, Henry David Thoreau, Ansel Adams, and Vincent van Gogh, contribute poignant and moving thoughts, quotes, sayings, interviews, and poems on the beauty of love and art. Through these contemporary and past theorists, musicians, artists, writers, and poets, Art as a Way of Life explores what it is to be passionate, inspired, and blissful.

Genres: Art

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Roderick MacIver published the periodical Heron Dance for twenty-five years, has been a full-time working artist for thirty years and has authored fourteen books on the creative process, the beauty and mystery of wild nature and of life, and books about the human search for meaning. His art has been featured in several books by others and is in a number of public and private collections.

Reviews

[Sarah Honkanen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I Just love the books that come from Heron Dance.
The water colors are lovely. And the quotes are inspiring in that they ask that we all can bring out our creative spirit.

[Brynne Betz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book so much I have it sitting out on my coffee table!

[Margaret]

An easy read and I wanted to savor it slowly. Chock full of watercolor paintings and quotes and writing on the creative life.