What is the nature of creativity?
Are creativity and art the same thing?
Are people naturally creative?
Is talent innate, and do artists need it?
Is skill more useful than talent?
How do you cultivate inspiration?
Should you go to art school?
Where are the crossroads between passion, emotion, ideas, hard work, life experience, play, ego, vulnerability, expression, failure, and professionalism?
I've always had a staunch attitude toward demystifying the creative process. Teaching art for nearly a decade, in many different types of schools and to many different types of students, has given me a unique vantage point from which to observe the patterns, pitfalls, and misguided beliefs that a person is likely to encounter on the road to becoming an artist.
Despite all we know about creative thinking, there are still questions that remain in the dark.
I wrote this book to shed light on them.
Are creativity and art the same thing?
Are people naturally creative?
Is talent innate, and do artists need it?
Is skill more useful than talent?
How do you cultivate inspiration?
Should you go to art school?
Where are the crossroads between passion, emotion, ideas, hard work, life experience, play, ego, vulnerability, expression, failure, and professionalism?
I've always had a staunch attitude toward demystifying the creative process. Teaching art for nearly a decade, in many different types of schools and to many different types of students, has given me a unique vantage point from which to observe the patterns, pitfalls, and misguided beliefs that a person is likely to encounter on the road to becoming an artist.
Despite all we know about creative thinking, there are still questions that remain in the dark.
I wrote this book to shed light on them.
