ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

The World Through the Artist’s Eyes

By BBC Travel Content Team

Around the world, artists continue to create controversy and provoke thought through their art.

Read on www.bbc.com

FindCenter Post-Image

Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life

Begin before you’re ready and other lessons on living a happy and creative life: Renowned designer and professional hell-raiser James Victore wants to drag you off your couch and throw you headfirst into a life of bold creativity.

Book
James Victore, Danielle LaPorte (foreword)
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Life Without Envy: Ego Management for Creative People

Life Without Envy by Camille DeAngelis is a game-changer for artists of all stripes: a practical guide for navigating the feelings of jealousy, frustration, and inadequacy we all experience to create a happy life regardless of how your career is (or isn’t) going.

Book
Camille DeAngelis
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known.

Book
Austin Kleon
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process

Writing was the central passion of Emerson’s life.

Book
Robert D. Richardson
2015
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Workflow: A Practical Guide to the Creative Process

A pro isn’t just a person who can do it well. It’s a person who can do it well every time, on demand and on deadline; which is why the key to being a professional creative is having a great creative process.

Book
Doron Meir
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Creative Careers: Making a Living with Your Ideas

In one of the most popular classes at Parsons School of Design, B. Jeffrey Madoff gave students a reality check: "Most of us have had the feeling of 'I could've done that,' whether at an art gallery, watching a performance, or finding a new product or even a new business idea.

Book
B. Jeffrey Madoff
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Musician’s Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness

In The Musician’s Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience to provide aspiring musicians with a roadmap to artistic excellence.

Book
Gerald Klickstein
2009
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction

In an era when there are countless competing claims on one’s attention, how does one find the internal focus to be creative? For master furniture craftsman Gary Rogowski, the answer is in the act of creative work itself.

Book
Gary Rogowski
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Embracing Your Inner Critic: Turning Self-Criticism into a Creative Asset

The inner critic. It whispers, whines, and needles us into place. It checks our thoughts, controls our behavior, and inhibits action. It thinks it is protecting us from being disliked, hurt, or abandoned.

Book
Hal Stone, Sidra Stone
1993
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths About Being Creative

This book is duct tape for the mouth of every artist’s inner critic. Silencing that stifling voice once and for all, this salve for creatives introduces ten truths they must face in order to defeat self-doubt.

Book
Danielle Krysa
2025
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Building Culture