“This urge, to express oneself. What is it?”

—Jean Cocteau

This book is the culmination of years of observing and documenting how artists look at, think about, discuss, and make their work. With some nine hundred and ninety-nine quotes, this volume presents intriguing, amusing, and often contradictory insights into how artists work, thrive, and fail.

“This urge, to express oneself. What is it?” examines many facets of the creative process in thirty-five chapters. Sample chapters include:

• Artmaking Comes Before Art
   

• The Perils of Theory
   

• Technique is Overrated
   

• Critics and Criticism
   

• Quantity versus Quality
   

• PDF manuscript (please contact me for the password)