What compels a person to become an artist, actor or singer, and to
make the financial and comfort sacrifices that so often precede
success, or accompany failure? A new book offers myriad,
unscientific answers. The Art Life: On Creativity and Career is "as
much curated as written," says author Stuart Horodner, artistic
director of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center…. Inspirations,
muses, personal motivators and observations are provided by such
figures as film directors Woody Allen and Werner Herzog, writers
Wayne Koestenbaum and Orhan Pamuk, singers Johnny Cash and Lady
Gaga, and artists Vito Acconci, Francis Bacon, Dana Schutz and Leon
Golub, who notes: "There are three things: your work, your
livelihood, and your personal life. If any two are going well at
the same time consider yourself lucky."
*Art In America*
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