How to Be an Artist

Jerry Saltz

How to Be an Artist
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Octopus Publishing Group
Country
United Kingdom
Published
31 March 2020
Pages
144
ISBN
9781781577820

How to Be an Artist

Jerry Saltz

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz is here to show you how to bring art and creativity into your life, with irreverent, inspiring and priceless pieces of advice on getting on in art.

As the witty and passionate chief art critic for New York magazine, Jerry Saltz is often approached by artists, both amateur and professional, asking him for advice: How do I get started? How do I get better? Is what I’m doing even art at all? They want to know, in short, how to be an artist.

Now, expanding on his viral cover story for New York magazine - and drawing on his decades of immersion in the art world - Saltz has the answers. How to Be an Artist is an indispensable book of practical inspiration for creative people of all kinds. Brimming with dozens of brand new rules, prompts, exercises, and tips designed to break through creative blocks, ignite motivation, and conquer bad habits, this book is designed to help artists of all kinds - painters, photographers, writers, performers - realize their dreams.

Includes such advice as:

 

  • Make art for now, not the future
  • No, you don’t need graduate school
  • Recognize convention, and resist constraint
  • Get lost
  • Listen to the wildest voices in your head
  • Know what you hate (it’s probably you)
  • Finish the damn thing!
  • How to recover from critical injuries

 

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