Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” Kafka is one of 161 inspired-and inspiring-minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his “male configurations”... Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day... Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced “every pleasure imaginable”.
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Dramaturgy, Literature, Music, Poetry, Philosophy, Art‑related socializing, Art education, Artists on their works
Kafka Franz, Auden Wystan Hugh, Wolfe Thomas, Stein Gertrude, Warhol Andy, Allen Woody, Bourgeois Louise, Bacon Francis, Marx Karl, Stoppard Tom, Kant Immanuel, Kooning Willem de, Fellini Federico, Jung Carl Gustav, Matisse Henri, Fitzgerald Francis Scott, Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus, Flaubert Gustave, Hemingway Ernest Miller, Miller Arthur, Satie Érik, Pollock Paul Jackson, Beauvoir Simone de, Mann Thomas, Miró Joan, Miller Henry, Grass Gunter, Lynch David, Highsmith Patricia, Feldman Morton, Freud Sigmund, Murakami Haruki, Eco Umberto, Picasso Pablo, Stravinsky Igor, Bergman Ingmar, Beethoven Ludwig van, Voltaire, Toulouse‑Lautrec Henri de, Faulkner William, Beattie Ann, Proust Marcel, Van Gogh Vincent, Abramović Marina, Kierkegaard Søren, Richter Gerhard, Britten Benjamin, O'Keeffe Georgia Totto, Balthus, Le Corbusier, King Stephen
New York City
2016
278 pages
9780307273604
Available on request
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