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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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To Make Successful Art You Agonize Over More and Find Perfect Grief
Jan 1, 2026
To Make Successful Art You Agonize Over More and Find Perfect Grief
Jan 1, 2026

More fame, more shows, more grants-now .  Dopamine fuels my anticipation. It’s a brain-based hormone forcing us to the future.  Until the novelty wears off. Uh-oh. As aspiring artists, we’d do well to listen to our bodies.

Jan 1, 2026
Open House for Art Lovers, How to Have Absolutely Good Times With a Home Gallery
Nov 26, 2025
Open House for Art Lovers, How to Have Absolutely Good Times With a Home Gallery
Nov 26, 2025

Sign up for an open studio tour. Make tons of work, invite the whole city to stop by and eventually understand why you’d do it all again next year. 

Nov 26, 2025
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