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Pioneering Psycholinguist Vera John-Steiner on How Creativity Works
Pioneering Psycholinguist Vera John-Steiner on How Creativity Works

“In the course of creative endeavors, artists and scientists join fragments of knowledge into a new unity of understanding.”

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Anne Truitt on Resisting the Label “Artist” and the Difference Between Doing Art and Being an Artist
Anne Truitt on Resisting the Label “Artist” and the Difference Between Doing Art and Being an Artist

“Artists have no choice but to express their lives.”

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My Teacher Is a Monster: A Sweet Modern Fable About Seeing Through the Otherness of Others
My Teacher Is a Monster: A Sweet Modern Fable About Seeing Through the Otherness of Others

A gentle illustrated reminder that we can’t love what we don’t know.

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James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society

“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”

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Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love
Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love

“If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.”

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Leonard Bernstein’s Moving Letter of Gratitude to His Mentor and a Prescient 1943 Manifesto for Crowdfunding the Arts
Leonard Bernstein’s Moving Letter of Gratitude to His Mentor and a Prescient 1943 Manifesto for Crowdfunding the Arts

Decades before Kickstarter, a vision for how micro-patronage can help creators “ascend to new heights” and “gain in confidence, in self-esteem and in fortitude.”

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Worn Stories: Playful and Poignant Tales of Clothes That Encode Life’s Most Meaningful Memories
Worn Stories: Playful and Poignant Tales of Clothes That Encode Life’s Most Meaningful Memories

Wearable emotional memories from John Hodgman, Marina Abramovic, Piper Kerman, Pat Mahoney, Debbie Millman, Paola Antonelli, Kenneth Goldsmith, Meghan O’Rourke, Rosanne Cash, and more.

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Maurice Sendak’s Rare, Sensual Illustrations for Herman Melville’s Greatest Commercial Failure and Most Personally Beloved Book
Maurice Sendak’s Rare, Sensual Illustrations for Herman Melville’s Greatest Commercial Failure and Most Personally Beloved Book

“The strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.”

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Thoughts on Design: Paul Rand on Beauty, Simplicity, the Power of Symbols, and Why Idealism Is Essential in Creative Work
Thoughts on Design: Paul Rand on Beauty, Simplicity, the Power of Symbols, and Why Idealism Is Essential in Creative Work

“Catering to bad taste, which we so readily attribute to the average reader, merely perpetuates that mediocrity.”

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Reconfiguring Reality: An Atlas of Alternative Maps by Ed Ruscha, Yoko Ono, Damien Hirst, John Maeda, Kevin Kelly, John Baldessari, and Other Icons
Reconfiguring Reality: An Atlas of Alternative Maps by Ed Ruscha, Yoko Ono, Damien Hirst, John Maeda, Kevin Kelly, John Baldessari, and Other Icons

“Maps are errors to arrive at truth.”

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