The Creative Act

By Rick Rubin

Categories: Self-Help

Music producer Rick Rubin, who has worked with artists across many genres, sets out what he has learned about where creativity comes from and how anyone can nurture it. Rubin argues that being an artist is less about output than about one's relationship to the world, and that creativity has a place in every life. He says he set out to write a book about making great art and found it had become a book about how to be.

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• Bill Gurley: “Rick Rubin... summed it up beautifully in his recent book, 'The Creative Act'”
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• Jason Fried: “Thoroughly enjoyed @RickRubin's book "The Creative ACT: A Way of Being." It's a poetic, insightful thread that weaves something wonderful... A really beautiful read.”