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A survival guide for anyone trying to live a creative life. Rich Theroux’s Stop Making Art and Die: Survival Activities for Artists is the playful, essential first book of the Artist Survival Series — an invitation to stay in touch with your creative impulse even when the art world feels indifferent, the bills pile up, and giving up seems easier. Blending humor, hard-won wisdom, and practical activities for surviving as an artist.
Blending humor, hard-won wisdom, and practical activities, Theroux challenges conventional advice about artistic careers and offers down-to-earth strategies for surviving and thriving as an artist. Real activities, real encouragement — and a much-needed reminder that making art matters. Rather than lofty theory, this is a hands-on manual: real activities, real encouragement, and a much-needed reminder that making art matters.
Witty and warmly encouraging: perfect for painters, writers, musicians, and makers of all kinds who need a nudge to keep creating. Funny, honest, and fiercely on the artist’s side.
Rich Theroux’s Stop Making Art and Die: Survival Activities for Artists is a playful, essential survival guide for anyone trying to live a creative life.
In this first book of the Artist Survival Series, Theroux invites readers to stay in touch with their creative impulse—even when the art world feels indifferent, the bills pile up, and giving up seems easier. Blending humor, hard-won wisdom, and practical activities, he challenges conventional advice about artistic careers and offers down-to-earth strategies for surviving and thriving as an artist.
Rather than lofty theory, this is a hands-on manual: real activities, real encouragement, and a much-needed reminder that making art matters. Theroux writes like a friend who has been through it all and lived to tell the tale—funny, honest, and fiercely on the artist’s side.
Witty and warmly encouraging, Stop Making Art and Die is perfect for painters, writers, musicians, and makers of all kinds who need a nudge to keep creating.
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