Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go

by Shaun McNiff

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Whether in painting, poetry, performance, music, dance, or life, there is an intelligence working in every situation. This force is the primary carrier of creation. If we trust it and follow its natural movement, it will astound us with its ability to find a way through problems-and even make creative use of our mistakes and failures. There is a magic to this process that cannot be controlled by the ego. Somehow it always finds the way to the place where you need to be, and a destination you show more never could have known in advance. When everything seems as if it is hopeless and going nowhere . . . trust the process. show less

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The book is a kick in the creative pants. It extolls the virtues of freedom, looseness, change, and cross pollination to get the artistic juices flowing. It comes at that message with suggestions from every angle imaginable and therewith is a bit repetitious. The resistant reader, however, needs some of that. It's a bit overwhelming to read through but I could see it as a very good resource for those lulls in the creative process
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Amazon: This is more than a book on creativity but also a book about the psychology of the artist as the book also deals with painters block, dealing with criticism, the purpose of being a painter, states of consciousness and childhood origins of the artist.

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Shaun McNiff is internationally recognized as a leading figure in the field of Art Therapy, and he is the founder of the graduate program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from which the field of Expressive Arts Therapy emerged. Now a university professor at Lesley, he is himself a visual artist as well as the author of numerous show more other books, including Art As Medicine, Trust the process, and Creating with Others. show less

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Original publication date
1998

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Nonfiction, Art & Design, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
701.15Arts & recreationArtsPhilosophy and theory of fine and decorative artsAppreciative aspectsPsychological principles
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N71 .M35Fine ArtsVisual artsTheory. Philosophy. Aesthetics of the visual arts
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