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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, by David Lynch

Imagination Change Agent, Can Reading Make Your Creative Fire Burn?

May 26, 2025

Reading certain authors can provide the imagination change agent you’re looking for to make your creative fires burn hot. Try these ten titles on for size. Guaranteed there’s a good fit for you here.

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In improved creativity Tags Keith Haring, books about creativity, David Lynch, Robert Henri, Jerry Saltz

Me and the Wig

November 29, 2023

“Recognize the otherness of art., says Jerry Saltz in his book “How to Make Art.” He’s talking about the idea that inspiration and what we create comes from a cosmic force outside ourselves. Saltz adds, “...the work we create isn’t entirely a matter of conscious choice.”  

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In famous artists Tags dark humor, Jerry Saltz, Warhol

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Your Best Imagination May Be Just Enough to Save the World
Oct 28, 2025
Your Best Imagination May Be Just Enough to Save the World
Oct 28, 2025

“We need your art, stop messing around and make something,” says Amie McNee. I almost didn’t buy it. YOU need MY art? Ha! I checked the research.

Oct 28, 2025
Gritty, Coarse, Rough and Sweet, Wabi Sabi is Your Perfect Look
Sep 28, 2025
Gritty, Coarse, Rough and Sweet, Wabi Sabi is Your Perfect Look
Sep 28, 2025

One scholar defines wabi sabi as, “...(seeking)  beauty in the imperfections found as all things in a constant state of flux, evolve from nothing and devolve back to nothing.” Which leads me to wonder if artists especially are naturally drawn to a wabi sabi simply as a result of our process.  Work that’s constantly evolving, becoming, changing, eclipsing and sometimes revealing cracks, fissures and other measures of brokenness, intended or not. Gritty, coarse, rough and sweet.

Sep 28, 2025
Astounding Talent or a Total Bore? Check Your Childhood Sketchbook
Aug 30, 2025
Astounding Talent or a Total Bore? Check Your Childhood Sketchbook
Aug 30, 2025

What to make of those kindergarten drawings my mother saved for my 74 year-old self to find? Better yet, what does Luc Tuymans think of his very earliest efforts? Are they evidence of astounding talent to come or a total bore. Check your work. See for yourself.

Aug 30, 2025